Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 7
Introduction: Nietzsche as Tragic Poet and His Legacy Mary Ann Frese Witt 11
Pausing before Being: Nietzsche, Strindberg, and the Idea of Tragedy Michael Stern 40
D'Annunzio's Dionysian Women: The Rebirth of Tragedy in Italy Mary Ann Frese Witt 72
Lidless Eyes, Stony Places, Vibrant Spectators: Nietzschean Tragedy in Yeats's Lyric Poetry John Burt Foster, Jr. 104
Groundlessness: Nietzsche and Russian Concepts of Tragic Philosophy Edith W. Clowes 126
"The Gods Are Evil": Tragedy and the Holocaust in Weil's Mendelssohn Is On the Roof Bettina Kaibach 138
Nietzsche, Artaud, and Tragic Politics Geoffrey Baker 159
Nietzschean Neurotheater: Apollinian and Dionysian Spirits in the Brain Matters of Our Town Mark Pizzato 186
Tragedy, Sight, and Sound: The Birth of Godard's Prenom Carmen from the Nietzschean Spirit of Music Ronald Bogue 219
Bibliography 242
Notes on Contributors 249
Index 250