Heirs to Dionysus (Paperback)  | Released: 01 Dec 1981

-"Fosters principal concern is to document Nietzsche's creative impact on literary modernism. . . . By virtue of its critical flair and its breadth of scope this book will appeal to a wide audience of scholars. . . . Heirs to Dionysus comfortably surpasses most previous attempts to chart the problematic course of Nietzsche's influence and bids fair to set the standard for future work in the field." -David S. 'Thatcher, Modern Language Quarterly "The title promises a great deal. and the book lives up to its title. . . . Foster quickly demonstrates his credentials as a bona fide comparatist, one who can deal sensitively with native nuances in the Anglo-American, French, German, and Russian traditions. . . The discordant sound of axe-grinding never once disturbs Foster's unflamboyant, sophisticated attention to those central texts which arc deeply marked by the Modernist encounter with Nietzsche, and he should be congratulated on the steadiness and clarity with which he addresses a rich, diverse set of major writers in the three most powerful branches of the novel during the first half of our century." -Gerald Gillespie, Comparative Literature John Burt Foster. teaches comparative literature George Mason University, where he Associate Professor of English and European Studies.