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

IF 0.1 4区 哲学 0 RELIGION
Kalliopi Nikolopoulou
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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 also reflects on the motives and implications of Nietzsche’s Dionysism for modernist aesthetics: Nietzsche’s eventual subsumption of the Apollonian under the Dionysian ushers in modernity’s espousal of irrationality, disease, darkness, and concealment as its privileged moments of expression. However, this new Dionysism is also symptomatic of the anxiety experienced in the aftermath of the death of God (and the concomitant death of the soul), and the essay demonstrates that the figure of the irrational in all three novellas is conveyed in terms of the struggle of a soul.

狄俄尼索斯和他的不满:约瑟夫-康拉德、亨利-詹姆斯和托马斯-曼的主题变奏
这篇文章对三部现代主义小说--《黑暗之心》、《威尼斯之死》和《螺丝钉之死》--进行了比较分析,重点关注它们对狄奥尼主题的使用,其中 "狄奥尼 "是指尼采的语境。除了在文学主题上的联系,文章还反思了尼采的狄俄尼索主义对现代主义美学的动机和影响:尼采最终将阿波罗式归入狄俄尼索式,从而开启了现代性崇尚非理性、疾病、黑暗和隐蔽的表达方式。然而,这种新的狄俄尼索主义也是上帝之死(以及随之而来的灵魂之死)后所经历的焦虑的表征,文章表明,三部小说中的非理性形象都是通过灵魂的挣扎来传达的。
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