Author : Matthew Fogarty
Publisher : Liverpool Studies in Irish Lit
ISBN 13 : 9781802077223
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Subjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett by : Matthew Fogarty
Download or read book Subjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett written by Matthew Fogarty and published by Liverpool Studies in Irish Lit. This book was released on 2023-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce and Beckett: Nietzschean Constellations reconceptualises Friedrich Nietzsche's position in the intellectual history of modernism and substantively refigures our received ideas regarding his relationship to these canonical Irish modernists. Building on recent developments in new modernist studies, the book demonstrates that Nietzsche is a modernist writer and a modernist philosopher by establishing new parallels between his engagement with established philosophical theories and the aesthetic practices that Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot identified as quintessentially modernist. With specific reference to key Nietzschean philosophemes - eternal recurrence, the Übermensch, transnationalism, cultural paralysis, and ethical perspectivism - it challenges the longstanding assumption that Yeats, who repeatedly acknowledged his admiration for Nietzsche, is the most 'Nietzschean' of these Irish modernists. While showing how both Joyce and Beckett are in many important ways more 'Nietzschean' than Yeats, this interdisciplinary study makes a number of significant and timely contributions to the fields of Irish studies and modernist studies.