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Heirs to Dionysus: A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism
John Burt Foster
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Description for Heirs to Dionysus: A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism
Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 490 pages. BIC Classification: DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Building on recent transformative theories of influence, John Foster explores the many ways Nietzsche's intellectual and artistic example helped shape an interconnected series of major literary projects from 1900 to the 1940s. He portrays Nietzsche as a stimulating but disturbing force who left a well-defined legacy of concerns that modernists appropriated for their fiction. The author focuses particularly on Gide, D. H. Lawrence, Malraux, and Mann, analyzing their strategies of acceptance, revision, and subversion. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist ... Read more
Building on recent transformative theories of influence, John Foster explores the many ways Nietzsche's intellectual and artistic example helped shape an interconnected series of major literary projects from 1900 to the 1940s. He portrays Nietzsche as a stimulating but disturbing force who left a well-defined legacy of concerns that modernists appropriated for their fiction. The author focuses particularly on Gide, D. H. Lawrence, Malraux, and Mann, analyzing their strategies of acceptance, revision, and subversion. Originally published in 1989. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
490
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691629704
SKU
V9780691629704
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Reviews for Heirs to Dionysus: A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism
Foster's principal concern is to document Nietzsche's creative impact on literary modernism... [The book] centers on the critical reinterpretation of three novels, Lawrence's Women in Love, Malraux's Man's Fate, and Mann's Doctor Faustus... Heirs to Dionysus comfortably surpasses most previous attempts to chart the problematic course of Nietzsche's influence and bids fair to set the standard for future work in ... Read more