Subjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett

Nietzschean Constellations

AvMatthew Fogarty

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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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 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.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-02
Mått:156 x 234 x undefined mm
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Liverpool Studies in Irish Literature
Antal sidor:256
Förlag:Liverpool University Press
ISBN:9781836245087

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Matthew 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.

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‘Subjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett: Nietzschean Constellations by Matthew Fogarty stands as a testament to meticulous research, deep intellectual engagement, and a profound understanding of the intricate interplay between literature and philosophy... Subjectivity and Nationhood in Yeats, Joyce, and Beckett: Nietzschean Constellations emerges as an indispensable addition to the literary and philosophical canon… Fogarty’s book not only enriches the field of literary criticism but also stands as a significant contribution to intellectual history, illuminating the often-hidden interplay between literature and philosophy in the modernist era.’ Hamid Farahmandian, James Joyce Quarterley

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Introduction: Nietzschean Modernism1. Foundational Systems and the Eternal Recurrence of the Same2. Aesthetic Potentiality and the Übermensch Ideal3. Cultural Paralysis and the Transnational State of Being4. Consciousness and the Ethics of AlterityConclusion: Nietzschean Constellations