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1 online resource |
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text |
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computer |
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online resource |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Translator's Acknowledgment; Preface; TUNING IN; PART 1; 1855; The Painful Departure; "You my heart's sovereign mistress"; The Virgin Islands; Governor J.F. Schlegel and His Wife; The Attack on the Church; "The flies are to such a degree impertinent out here"; Patient No. 2067; 1856; His Last Will and Testament; "My Regine! ... Your K."; "She nodded twice. I shook my head."; Repetition and the Repetition; Regine Frederikke Olsen's Death; Cane Garden's Blessings; "Food for worms and that's the end of it." |
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". . . For you know how little fuss there is with Fritz and me"Henrik Lund and "Uncle Søren"; Regine's First Letter to Henrik Lund; The Sealed Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Schlegel; The Secret Place in Regine's Heart; The Plague's Paradise; The First Love; ". . . it's exactly a matter I'd like to take up a little: blind love!"; "But I am constantly afraid of her passion"; ". . . so she eggs the merman on"; ". . . an unsettled point between us"-Regine's Second Letter to Henrik Lund; "One unnamed whose name will sometime be named"; "Then I return to you . . ."; 1857; "The Seducer's Diary." |
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Tropical YuletideThe White Gold-A Dark Chapter; "We have had a Negro-uprising on St. Croix!"; Regine and "the Blacks"; Birch and His Brother; "Meet her without being observed"; ". . . I am an exceptional lover"; Either/Or; "The priest people in Hellevad"; "The day is bad, but the night is worse"; ". . . then I stand there so untouched by it all"; 1001 Nights; 1858; "You imagined it was Cornelia"; "What does this silence mean?"; ". . . I shall the second time with God's help become more cruel"; ". . . my besetting sin, making eternities!"; "God preserve me from their Christianity." |
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". . . As though I were 16 again and not 36""What an enormous loss, that Mrs. Heiberg has left the theater!"; Fritz and His Tormentors; "-and when I grew dizzy through gazing down into her infinite devotion"; 1859; "They played mostly dance music"; The French Officer-ALittle Weakness; The Collectively Unutterable and Some Stolen Reflections; Birthdays-and Other Fatalities; PART 2; 1860-1896; ". . . I am not looking forward to coming to Copenhagen"; Homecoming and the Time That Followed; Regine's Copenhagen and Environs; ". . . a word or two about the dear Fritz." |
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"I cannot be quit of this relationship""so close to me that it was almost a collision"; ". . . my heart is deeply grieved over my poor native land"; Regine's Boarding House; The Schlegels' "Place on the Corner"; "Alas, I am indeed somewhat spectral"; Regine's Myth and Brandes's Biography; Fireburn: Fritz's Reencounter with the West Indies; Exit to Eternity; PART 3; 1897-1904; "Then comes a dream from my youth's spring . . ."; The Right to Regine's Love Story; ". . . he is the riddle, the great riddle"; " 'our own dear, little Regine' "; Postscript and Acknowledgments; Notes. |
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The first biography of Kierkegaard's literary muse and one-time fiancée, from the author of the definitive biography of the philosopherKierkegaard's Muse, the first biography of Regine Olsen (1822-1904), the literary inspiration and one-time fiancée of Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, is a moving portrait of a long romantic fever that had momentous literary consequences. Drawing on more than one hundred previously unknown letters by Regine that acclaimed Kierkegaard biographer Joakim Garff discovered by chance, the book tells the story of Kierkegaard and Regine's mysterious relationship more fully and vividly than ever before, shedding new light on her influence on his life and writings. Like Dante's Beatrice, Regine is one of the great muses of literary history. Kierkegaard proposed to her in 1840, but broke off the engagement a year later. After their break, they saw each other strikingly often, inside dimly lit churches, on the streets of Copenhagen, and on the paths along the old city ramparts, passing by without uttering a word. Despite or because of their separation in life, Kierkegaard made Regine his literary life companion, "that single individual" to whom he dedicated all his works. Garff shows how Regine became a poetic presence in the frequent erotic conflicts found throughout Kierkegaard's writings, from the famous "Seducer's Diary" account of their relationship to diary entries made shortly before his death in 1855. In turn, Regine remained preoccupied with Kierkegaard until her own death almost fifty years later, and her newly discovered letters, written to her sister Cornelia, reveal for the first time a woman of flesh and blood. A psychologically acute narrative that is as gripping as a novel, Kierkegaard's Muse is an unforgettable account of a wild, strange, and poignant romance that made an indelible mark on literary history. Some images inside the book are unavailable due to digital copyright restrictions. |
| Local Note |
De Gruyter Online De Gruyter Books Complete |
| Subject |
Olsen, Regine, 1822-1904.
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Kierkegaard, Søren, 1813-1855.
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Denmark -- Biography.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Regines gåde. English |
| ISBN |
9781400888788 (electronic bk.) |
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1400888786 (electronic bk.) |
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9780691171760 |
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0691171769 |
| OCLC # |
987791180 |
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