Email this article Human struggle to experience Kierkegaardian state of genuine humanness in Updikean writings
- Authors: Dworak J.K.
- Issue: Vol 3, No 12 (2015)
- Section: Статьи
- Submitted: 01.05.2025
- URL: https://ogarev-online.ru/2311-2468/article/view/290199
- ID: 290199
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Abstract
The article considers the reflection of existential struggle of the despairing selves to experience genuine humanness in a fiction text. The author studies the works of J. Updike, a prominent modern American writer, and S. A. Kierkegaard, an outstanding Danish philosopher, whose philosophical theory of human growth and corruption is widely echoed throughout Updikean writings.
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