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