Kierkegaard's Notions of Drama and Opera: Molière's Don Juan, Mozart's Don Giovanni, and the Question of Music and Sensuousness
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The essay focuses on Kierkegaard's treatise on Mozart's Don Giovanni (in the first volume of his Either/Or (1843), ascribed to the pseudonymous aestitician "A". It discusses the aesthetics of drama and opera, not least through A's understanding of (and comparison between) language and music, in a broad historical context of worldview, while also in particular as a response to early Romantic aesthetics.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Kierkegaard, Literature, and the Arts |
| Editors | Eric Ziolkowski |
| Number of pages | 18 |
| Place of Publication | Evanstone, Illinois, USA |
| Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
| Publication date | 2018 |
| Pages | 131-148 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780810135970 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9780810135987 |
| Publication status | Published - 2018 |
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