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  Nietzsche. German philosopher, clas-

  sical scholar, and poet Frederich Nietszche

  (1844-1900) is noted for his theory of the uber-

  mensch (“superman”). Nietszche set himself

  against the systematic philosophy of the first part

  of the 19th Century, particularly that of Hegel.

  He tried to go beyond the rational to the irra-

  tional, human level. He rejected Christianity

  because he felt it directed human thought away

  from this world and into the next, thereby ren-

  dering man incapable of coping with the reality

  of everyday life; he said that Christianity teaches

  men how to die but not how to live. He went

  insane in 1889, and remained so until he died a

  year later.

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  Stendhal. This is the pen name of

  the French novelist and critic, Marie Henri

  Beyle (1783-1842). Stendhal’s fiction strongly

  influenced the development of the modern

  novel, bridging the realistic and romantic

  schools, and including deep character studies

  that pointed the way to the psychological

  novel. His most celebrated work is The Red

  and the Black (1830), a probing study of the

  provincial romantic, Julien Sorel, and a satiric

  analysis of the French social order under the

  Bourbon restoration.

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  Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot.

  Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhailovich

  Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), whose works

  include

  Crime and Punishment, The Brothers

  Karamazov, and The Possessed, is one of the

  most important and influential writers of

  modern literature. Along with Tolstoy,

  Dostoyevsky is acknowledged to be the mas-

  ter of the realistic novel.

  The Idiot (1868) is set in the worldly society of

  St. Petersburg, and follows the life and loves of

  the saintly Prince Myshkin. Dostoyevky

  acknowledged that his goal with Myshkin was to

  portray a truly good man – a blend of human and

  Christ-like attributes.

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  Ulysses. The novel by James Joyce

  first published in France in 1922 and banned in

  the United States until 1933 that is now recog-

  nized as the greatest novel written in English

  in the 20th Century. On one level, the novel

  recounts the events of a typical day in the lives

  of Leopold Bloom; his wife, Molly; and his son,

  Stephen Dedalus. Journeys throughout the

  city of Dublin are matched by inward journeys

  into the consciousness of the characters. Also,

  the plan of the book parallels the Odyssey, with

  Bloom, Molly, and Stephen echoing Ulysses,

  Penelope, and Telemachus. Bloom is engaged

  in the life of the world: society, ethics, politics,

  love; Stephen is the artist living the life of the

  mind, seeking spiritual fulfillment; Molly is the

  embodiment of the feminine, regenerative

  principle.

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  Nietzsche. German philosopher, clas-

  sical scholar, and poet Frederich Nietszche

  (1844-1900) is noted for his theory of the uber-

  mensch (“superman”). Nietszche set himself

  against the systematic philo
sophy of the first part

  of the 19th Century, particularly that of Hegel.

  He tried to go beyond the rational to the irra-

  tional, human level. He rejected Christianity

  because he felt it directed human thought away

  from this world and into the next, thereby ren-

  dering man incapable of coping with the reality

  of everyday life; he said that Christianity teaches

  men how to die but not how to live. He went

  insane in 1889, and remained so until he died a

  year later.

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  Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot.

  Russian novelist Fyodor Mikhailovich

  Dostoyevsky (1821-1881), whose works

  include

  Crime and Punishment, The Brothers

  Karamazov, and The Possessed, is one of the

  most important and influential writers of

  modern literature. Along with Tolstoy,

  Dostoyevsky is acknowledged to be the mas-

  ter of the realistic novel.

  The Idiot (1868) is set in the worldly society of

  St. Petersburg, and follows the life and loves of

  the saintly Prince Myshkin. Dostoyevky

  acknowledged that his goal with Myshkin was to

  portray a truly good man – a blend of human and

  Christ-like attributes.

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  Kenneth Patchen’s Journal

  of Albion Moonlight. A novel

  by the American writer Kenneth Patchen

  (1911-1972) who was primarily known for

  his poetry – which combined elements of

  humor, fantasy, social protest, and surreal-

  istic imagery. He illustrated some of his

  verse with his own abstract drawings. In

  the early 50s, he read his poetry to a jazz

  accompaniment, much in the spirit of the

  Beat movement. The Journal of Albion

  Moonlight attracted a cult following

  among college students of the 60s.

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  Faustus. A legendary character based

  on a 15th Century German magician named

  Georg Faust and the inspiration for many

  works of literature and operas. Goethe’s Faust

  (1808) was the first: a tale of an old scholar

  who promises his soul to the destructive spir-

  it, Mephistopheles, in exchange for infinite

  wisdom – both of the realm of personal feeling

  and experience, as well as the larger sphere of

  history, politics, and culture. Thomas Mann

  wrote a novel called Doktor Faustus (1947);

  the Faust legend also inspired operas by

  Berlioz, Gounod, and others.

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  Nietzsche. German philosopher, clas-

  sical scholar, and poet Frederich Nietszche

  (1844-1900) is noted for his theory of the uber-

  mensch (“superman”). Nietszche set himself

  against the systematic philosophy of the first part

  of the 19th Century, particularly that of Hegel.

  He tried to go beyond the rational to the irra-

  tional, human level. He rejected Christianity

  because he felt it directed human thought away

  from this world and into the next, thereby ren-

  dering man incapable of coping with the reality

  of everyday life; he said that Christianity teaches

  men how to die but not how to live. He went

  insane in 1889, and remained so until he died a

  year later.

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  Zarathustra. Frederich Nietzsche

  wrote a philosophical narrative called Thus

  Spake Zarathustra, in which the Persian

  philosopher Zarathustra (also called

  Zoroaster) spouts the doctrine of the ubermen-

  sch, and other Nietzschian ideas. The word

  ubermensch originally appeared in Goethe’s

  Faust (see Faustus). Nietzsche used it to mean the person who devotes himself to achieving

  the universal human goal –- as opposed to the

  goals unique to a given cultural context. If a

  man sacrifices his life for his earthly goal, the

  ubermensch ("superman") would arise from

  that sacrificial self-destruction.

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  Lucretius. The Roman poet (98?-55

  BC) who wrote the unfinished De rerum natu-

  ra (On the Nature of Things), a six-book trea-

  tise intended to explain the science of the uni-

  verse. The central thesis is that all things,

  including man, operate according to their

  own laws, and are not subject to outer, super-

  natural powers, and that therefore, men need

  not be enslaved by religious superstition and

  fear of death. Lucretius committed suicide

  before finishing the work, and Cicero pre-

  pared the manuscript for publication.

  Tennyson wrote a poem in 1869 called

  "Lucretius" which recounts the legend that

  the poet was driven to suicide after drinking a

  love potion given him by his wife.

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  Nietzsche. German philosopher, clas-

  sical scholar, and poet Frederich Nietszche

  (1844-1900) is noted for his theory of the uber-

  mensch (“superman”). Nietszche set himself

  against the systematic philosophy of the first part

  of the 19th Century, particularly that of Hegel.

  He tried to go beyond the rational to the irra-

  tional, human level. He rejected Christianity

  because he felt it directed human thought away

  from this world and into the next, thereby ren-

  dering man incapable of coping with the reality

  of everyday life; he said that Christianity teaches

  men how to die but not how to live. He went

  insane in 1889, and remained so until he died a

  year later.

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  Zarathustra. Frederich Nietzsche

  wrote a philosophical narrative called Thus

  Spake Zarathustra, in which the Persian

  philosopher Zarathustra (also called

  Zoroaster) spouts the doctrine of the ubermen-

  sch, and other Nietzschian ideas. The word

  ubermensch originally appeared in Goethe’s

  Faust (see Faustus). Nietzsche used it to mean the person who devotes himself to achieving

  the universal human goal –- as opposed to the

  goals unique to a given cultural context. If a

  man sacrifices his life for his earthly goal, the

  ubermensch ("superman") would arise from

  that sacrificial self-destruction.

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  Oscar Wilde. As an undergradu-

  ate at Oxford, the Irish-born poet, dramatist,

  and novelist Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was a

  disciple of Walter Pater and became the leader

  of an aesthetic movement that advocated "art

  for art’s sake." He was found guilty of engag-

  ing in homosexuality and sentenced to two

  years in prison. Wilde is best known for his

  plays ( Lady Windermere’s Fan, The

  Importance of Being Earnest, and others), and

  the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.

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  T. S. Eliot. Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-

  1965), the American-born poet, essayist, and play-

  wright who lived in England from 1914 and eventu-

  ally become a British subject, was a preeminent

  proponent of literary modernism. Along with con-

  temporaries such as Ezra Pound and James Joyce,

  he experimented with new techniques and

  explored subject areas ignored by the Romantics

  and Victorians. His poems ("The Love Song of J.

  Alfred Prufrock," "The Waste Land," "Portrait of a Lady," "Gerontion," "The Hollow Men," and others) reflect the post-World War I sense of dislocation,

  malaise, uncertainty, emotional impoverishment,

  ennui, and spiritual emptiness.

  In his later life, Eliot converted to Anglicanism,

  and poems such as " Ash Wednesday" reflect alter-nating states of despair/skepticism, hope/joy. " Four Quartets" is acknowledged as the major work of

  Eliot’s late period, consisting of four long medita-

  tions exploring the tension between man’s tethered

  and limited existence in the material, earthly world,

  and his desire to transcend and escape those limits.

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  Zarathustra. Frederich Nietzsche

  wrote a philosophical narrative called Thus

  Spake Zarathustra, in which the Persian

  philosopher Zarathustra (also called

  Zoroaster) spouts the doctrine of the ubermen-

  sch, and other Nietzschian ideas. The word

  ubermensch originally appeared in Goethe’s

  Faust (see Faustus). Nietzsche used it to mean the person who devotes himself to achieving