Heirs to Dionysus
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Heirs to Dionysus

A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism

  1. 490 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Heirs to Dionysus

A Nietzschean Current in Literary Modernism

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Note on Translation, Annotation, and Abbreviation
  5. Introduction
  6. I. Influence as Transformation, Nietzsche as Influence
  7. II. Nietzsche's Legacy to the Modernists
  8. III. From Nietzsche to the Savage God: An Early Appropriation by the Young Gide and Mann
  9. IV. Holding Forth Against Nietzsche: D. H. Lawrence's Novels from Women in Love to the Plumed Serpent
  10. V. Preceded by Nietzsche's Madness: Malraux as a Novelist in Man's Fate and The Walnut Trees of the Altenburg
  11. VI. Enter the Devil: Nietzsche's Presence in Doctor Faustus
  12. Conclusion
  13. Chronology of Works, Writers, and Events
  14. Notes
  15. Index