Bibliograph

Dionysus after Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy in twentieth-century literature and thought, Adam Lecznar

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Dionysus after Nietzsche, The Birth of Tragedy in twentieth-century literature and thought, Adam Lecznar

Language

eng

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Dionysus after Nietzsche

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

1126349218

Responsibility statement

Adam Lecznar

Series statement

Classics after antiquityCambridge Histories online

Sub title

The Birth of Tragedy in twentieth-century literature and thought

Summary

Dionysus after Nietzsche examines the way that The Birth of Tragedy (1872) by Friedrich Nietzsche irrevocably influenced twentieth-century literature and thought. Adam Lecznar argues that Nietzsche's Dionysus became a symbol of the irrational forces of culture that cannot be contained, and explores the presence of Nietzsche's Greeks in the diverse writings of Jane Harrison, D. H. Lawrence, Martin Heidegger, Richard Schechner and Wole Soyinka (amongst others). From Jane Harrison's controversial ideas about Greek religion in an anthropological modernity, to Wole Soyinka's reimagining of a postcolonial genre of tragedy, each of the writers under discussion used the Nietzschean vision of Greece to develop subversive discourses of temporality, identity, history and classicism. In this way, they all took up Nietzsche's call to disrupt pre-existing discourses of classical meaning and create new modes of thinking about the Classics that speak to the immediate concerns of the present.--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Dionysus after Nietzsche -- Corybants, satyrs and bulls : Jane Harrison -- A great kick at misery : D. H. Lawrence -- In search of an absent god : Martin Heidegger -- What Oedipus knew : Richard Schechner -- Dionysus in Yorubaland : Wole Soyinka -- Dionysus today

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