Dionysus After Nietzsche - The Birth of Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Literature and Thought

List of contents

Introduction. Dionysus after Nietzsche; 1. Corybants, satyrs and bulls: Jane Harrison; 2. A great kick at misery: D. H. Lawrence; 3. In search of an absent god: Martin Heidegger; 4. What Oedipus knew: Richard Schechner; 5. Dionysus in Yorubaland: Wole Soyinka; Conclusion. Dionysus today.

About the author

Adam Lecznar is a research fellow in the Department of Greek and Latin at University College London. His work is concerned with understanding the way that modern experience, knowledge and ideas have been formed in a lively dialogue with the texts and authors of ancient Greece and Rome. Alongside writing various essays on continental media theory, Nietzsche, James Joyce and Alejo Carpentier, Lecznar has also recently co-edited a path-breaking collection on Classicisms in the Black Atlantic which examines the way that the ancient Greek and Roman pasts have become interconnected with modern discourses of race and identity.

Product details

• Authors: Adam Lecznar, Adam (University College London) Lecznar
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 16.04.2020
• EAN: 9781108482561
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48256-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Classics after Antiquity
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Western philosophy from c 1800, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Western philosophy: Enlightenment