| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 244 pages) |
| Series |
Classics after antiquity |
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Classics after antiquity.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
"Dionysus after Nietzsche examines the way that The Birth of Tragedy (1872) by Friedrich Nietzsche irrevocably influenced the literature and thought of the twentieth century. 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 20, 2020) |
| Subject |
Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900. Geburt der Tragödie.
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 -- Influence
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Harrison, Jane Ellen, 1850-1928.
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Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.
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Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
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Schechner, Richard, 1934-
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Soyinka, Wole
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Dionysus (Greek deity)
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| SUBJECT |
Dionysus (Greek deity) fast |
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Harrison, Jane Ellen, 1850-1928 fast |
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Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 fast |
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Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 fast |
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Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 fast |
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Schechner, Richard, 1934- fast |
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Soyinka, Wole fast |
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Geburt der Tragödie (Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm) fast |
| Subject |
Civilization, Modern -- Greek influences.
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Civilization, Modern -- Greek influences
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019048474 |
| ISBN |
9781108696890 |
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1108696899 |
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9781108618625 |
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1108618626 |
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