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OverviewSubjectivity 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 Irish modernists. Building on recent developments in new modernist studies, the book demonstrates that Nietzsche is a modernist writer and a modernist philosopher by drawing 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Matthew FogartyPublisher: Liverpool University Press Imprint: Liverpool University Press ISBN: 9781802077223ISBN 10: 1802077227 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 03 April 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews"""Nietzsche, the Protean philosopher par excellence, must be reinvented by each generation, and yet, in the first decades of the twentieth century, his revolutionary ideas were instrumental in bringing about Irish modernism, here represented by Yeats, Joyce and Beckett. Thanks to Matthew Fogarty's astute, original, and compelling analyses, we discover an �bermensch speaking with an undeniable Irish accent."" Jean-Michel Rabat�, University of Pennsylvania and American Academy of Arts and Sciences" Author InformationMatthew Fogarty is the author of Subjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett: Nietzschean Constellations (Liverpool UP, 2023). He has published articles in the Irish Gothic Journal, International Yeats Studies, Modern Drama, the James Joyce Quarterly, and the Journal of Academic Writing. His current book project, Identity Politics and the Jazz Aesthetic: Ethnicity, Gender, and Class in Modern Transatlantic Literature, explores how white writers from Britain and Ireland have used and abused the jazz aesthetic to address formative sociopolitical developments and complex ethical concerns. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |