Includes bibliographical references (p. 242-248) and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Nietzsche as Tragic Poet and His Legacy / Mary Ann Frese Witt -- Pausing before Being: Nietzsche, Strindberg, and the Idea of Tragedy / Michael Stern -- D'Annunzio's Dionysian Women: The Rebirth of Tragedy in Italy / Mary Ann Frese Witt -- Lidless Eyes, Stony Places, Vibrant Spectators: Nietzschean Tragedy in Yeats's Lyric Poetry / John Burt Foster -- Groundlessness: Nietzsche and Russian Concepts of Tragic Philosophy / Edith W. Clowes -- "The Gods Are Evil": Tragedy and the Holocaust in Weil's Mendelssohn Is On the Roof / Bettina Kaibach -- Nietzsche, Artaud, and Tragic Politics / Geoffrey Baker -- Nietzschean Neurotheater: Apollonian and Dionysian Spirits in the Brain Matters of Our Town / Mark Pizzato -- Tragedy, Sight, and Sound: The Birth of Godard's Prenom Carmen from the Nietzschean Spirit of Music / Ronald Bogue.
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