| Dionysus After Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Literature and Thought Contributor(s): Lecznar, Adam (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108482562 ISBN-13: 9781108482561 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - General - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
| Dewey: 111.85 |
| LCCN: 2019048473 |
| Series: Classics After Antiquity |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.5" W x 9.1" (1.00 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Dionysus after Nietzsche examines the way that The Birth of Tragedy (1872) by Friedrich Nietzsche irrevocably influenced twentieth-century literature and thought. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Lecznar, Adam: - ADAM LECZNAR is currently a research fellow in the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London. His work is predominantly concerned with understanding the way that modern experience, knowledge and ideas have often been formed in a lively dialogue with the texts and authors of ancient Greece and Rome. Alongside various essays on continental media theory, Nietzsche, James Joyce and Alejo Carpentier, Lecznar has also co-edited a path-breaking collection on Classicisms on the Black Atlantic which examines the way that the ancient Greek and Roman pasts have become interconnected with modern discourses of race and identity. |
