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Nietzsche and the Rebirth of the Tragic
Mary Ann Frese . Ed(S): Witt
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Hardback. Editor(s): Witt, Mary Ann Frese. Num Pages: 255 pages. BIC Classification: DSR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 240 x 20. Weight in Grams: 536.
This book addresses the question of the legacies of Nietzsche's theories of tragedy as literary genre and of the tragic as ontological concept. Although The Birth of Tragedy was the most seminal in this sense, Nietzsche's followers also read, misread, and appropriated ideas on the tragic in his later works. Taking seriously the call for the rebirth of the tragic spirit in culture generally, dramatists, poets, novelists, philosophers, film makers, and theorists not always acknowledging a debt to Nietzsche incorporated the Dionysian and the Apollinian, as well as other aspects of Nietzsche's thinking on tragedy, into their own works. This ... Read more
This book addresses the question of the legacies of Nietzsche's theories of tragedy as literary genre and of the tragic as ontological concept. Although The Birth of Tragedy was the most seminal in this sense, Nietzsche's followers also read, misread, and appropriated ideas on the tragic in his later works. Taking seriously the call for the rebirth of the tragic spirit in culture generally, dramatists, poets, novelists, philosophers, film makers, and theorists not always acknowledging a debt to Nietzsche incorporated the Dionysian and the Apollinian, as well as other aspects of Nietzsche's thinking on tragedy, into their own works. This ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press United States
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
Number of Pages
255
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611473759
SKU
V9781611473759
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About Mary Ann Frese . Ed(S): Witt
Mary Ann Frese Witt is professor emerita in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at North Carolina State University.
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