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date: 19 January 2021

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This chapter examines the influence of Soren Kierkegaard on modern European literature. It suggests that Kierkegaard's contribution to the formation of a linguistic and aesthetic norm was represented by three of his most literary works: , , and . The chapter also analyses the works of European authors who derived inspiration from Kierkegaard's ideas and those authors who drew their material from his historical existence.

Keywords: Soren Kierkegaard, modern European literature, linguistic norm, aesthetic norm, Either/Or, Prefaces, Life's Way

Leonardo F. Lisi

Leonardo F. Lisi is Assistant Professor in the Humanities Center at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of Marginal Modernity: The Aesthetics of Dependency from Kierkegaard to Joyce (Fordham, 2012), as well as numerous articles on Kierkegaard and European modernism. An executive editor of the comparative literature issue of MLN, Lisi is also a member of the International Editorial Advisory Board for the Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism.

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