Heirs to Dionysus: A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism

John Burt Foster; John Burt Foster

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Heirs to Dionysus

A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism

John Burt Foster and John Burt Foster

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2017

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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 1982.

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"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 the field."---David S. Thatcher, Modern Language Quarterly

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Acknowledgments
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Note on Translation, Annotation, and Abbreviation
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Introduction
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I. Influence as Transformation, Nietzsche as Influence
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II. Nietzsche's Legacy to the Modernists
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III. From Nietzsche to the Savage God: An Early
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IV. Holding Forth against Nietzsche: D. H. Lawrence's Novels from Women in Love to The Plumed Serpent
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V. Preceded by Nietzsche's Madness: Andre Malraux as a Novelist in Man's Fate and The Walnut Trees of the Altenburg
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VI. Enter the Devil: Nietzsche's Presence in Doctor Faustus
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Conclusion
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Chronology of Works, Writers, and Events
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Notes
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Index
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Keywords for this book

Apollonian and Dionysian; Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche; Thought; Modernism; Philosopher; The Birth of Tragedy; Death in Venice; Ressentiment; Dionysus; Doctor Faustus (novel); Women in Love; Nihilism; Doctor Faustus (play); Writing; Consciousness; Psychology; Philosophy; Thus Spoke Zarathustra; Man's Fate; Pity; Aphorism; Will to power; Arthur Schopenhauer; D. H. Lawrence; Søren Kierkegaard; The Four Great Errors; On the Genealogy of Morality; The Philosopher; Karl Jaspers; Morality; Disenchantment; Friedrich Nietzsche; Result; The Case of Wagner; God is dead; Good and evil; Scientism; Beyond Good and Evil; Anguish; Apathy; Literary modernism; Last man; Art for art's sake; Faust; The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction; Cultural Bolshevism; Black rage (law); Polemic; Superiority (short story); Literature; E. M. Forster; Utilitarianism; Word and Object; Epigram; Out of Revolution; Robert Musil; Twilight of the Idols; Aestheticism; New Thought; Romanticism; Jude the Obscure; Theodor W. Adorno; Existentialism; Psychoanalysis; Jacques Derrida; Religion; Writer; Antithesis; Posthumanism; Catharsis

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For an expert adult audience, including professional development and academic research

Heirs to Dionysus

Overview

About this book

Reviews

Topics

Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Note on Translation, Annotation, and Abbreviation

Introduction

I. Influence as Transformation, Nietzsche as Influence

II. Nietzsche's Legacy to the Modernists

III. From Nietzsche to the Savage God: An Early

IV. Holding Forth against Nietzsche: D. H. Lawrence's Novels from Women in Love to The Plumed Serpent

V. Preceded by Nietzsche's Madness: Andre Malraux as a Novelist in Man's Fate and The Walnut Trees of the Altenburg

VI. Enter the Devil: Nietzsche's Presence in Doctor Faustus

Conclusion

Chronology of Works, Writers, and Events

Notes

Index

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