Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

From childhood SKS was fervently religious. Her parents were Anglicans (though her mother had been brought up a Presbyterian ). She was attracted to the idea of self-sacrifice, though not to the obedience and...

As an adult she rejected Christianity [and] assumed instead a pagan stance derived primarily from Nietzsche , elsewhere defined as pantheism or humanitarian heathenism. She was interested in European witchcraft, especially that...

Carrington began to alter herself in other ways also. During her first term at the Slade she began to go by her surname only. Excitement about her new surroundings and acquaintances prompted her to...

Much of ID 's education was self-administered. She read voraciously whether in Denmark or Africa, and was particularly well grounded in the Danish, other European, and English literature of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: Spinoza

By adulthood, Chavelita Dunne (later GE ) had already gained proficiency in five or six languages, including Swedish. She now taught herself Norwegian and read widely among the Scandinavian authors, including Ibsen , August Strindberg

At home the Lerner children learned Yiddish songs and made up silly plays. Tillie was a difficult child, skipping family chores to spend time at the public library, with its huge painting of...

A closer friendship formed in Leipzig was that with a young Scotsman, George Robertson , who was studying for a PhD in German literature. He reawakened Richardson's interest in books and writing, particularly when she...

O'Brien became known for his regular anthologies of selected recent short stories. He also published a biography of Friedrich Nietzsche . The couple had one child together, a son.

They met for the first time in Glasgow in September 1918, at a gathering at a mutual friend's flat. At this time Willa was twenty-eight and happy with her independence. I thought I had been...

GBS 's Man and Superman, a Nietzsche an romantic comedy, was first publicly presented (without the third act) by the Stage Society at the Court Theatre in London.

Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche looks at its subject through his relation to the element of water. Its lover (who in the French title is unmistakably female) addresses her subject as you, but switches...

Finally, Women to a Philosopher is a feminist response to Nietzsche : Saw you not the brain-wrecking absurdity / Of preaching superman and scorning women? These responses are spontaneous and casual, probably never intended...

RW 's fifth novel, Dragon's Blood: Conte de Fée Deuxième, set in postwar Germany, explored, in Nietzsche an terms, the sense of loss and chaos.

This story of infidelity features an Italian financier who as a furiously jealous foreigner is compared to Shakespeare's Othello. (At least Provana is not black comments one character.) There the resemblance ends, for...

Critic Patricia Murphy argues that this novel reads like a fictionalized version of Nietzsche 's treatise on the past in Unzeitgemässe betrachtungen (published in 1873, translated into English in 1983), in which he cautions against...