Dionysus and His Discontents: Variations on a Motif in Joseph Conrad, Henry James, and Thomas Mann

The essay presents a comparative analysis of three modernist novellas—Heart of Darkness, Death in Venice, and The Turn of the Screw—focusing on their use of Dionysian motifs, whereby “Dionysian” is intended in its Nietzschean context. Alongside the thematic literary connections it draws, the essay a...

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Main Author: Nikolopoulou, Kalliopi (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2024
In: Religion and the arts
Year: 2024, Volume: 28, Issue: 3, Pages: 251-279
Further subjects:B Nietzsche
B literary modernism and the irrational
B the Death of God
B Heart of Darkness
B the death of the soul
B Death in Venice
B Apollonian / Dionysian
B The Turn of the Screw
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