![]() ![]() The diary form is also considered the least reliable type of life writing. Diary writing suggests a self-reflexive mode, a tendency towards introspection, in which Damon, unlike his brother Stefan, is not interested. ![]() Yet unlike the former, he does not engage in diary writing. Like Kierkegaard’s seducer, Damon appears to experience pleasure primarily on an aesthetic level. In the first two seasons of The Vampire Diaries, Damon acts as the series’ primary vampiric seducer. ![]() In Kirekegaard’s text, aesthetic pleasure is derived primarily from the narration the seducer creates scenarios solely to improve his diary’s aesthetics. Kierkegaard’s seducer gains pleasure from the possibilities that a seduction offers, rather than from the act of seduction itself. In “The Seducer’s Diary,” the best-known extract from his major philosophical works, Either/Or, Søren Kierkegaard presents a fictional example of the life of “the seducer,” which he positions in direct opposition to the ethical life. 2013 (English) In: “The Vampire in Literature, Culture and Film: I: The Vampire Diaries,”, 2013 Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Other academic) Abstract Įveryone does it in the television series The Vampire Diaries, everyone except Damon, that is. ![]()
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