Hüneburg, Erik
Congratulations on passing the viva voce on 11 December 2014.
Dissertation topic: "Nietzsche and the Spanish Literature of Modernism."
Contact address at the University of Würzburg:
University of Würzburg
Neuphilologisches Institut - Romanistik
Am Hubland
D-97074 Würzburg
First supervisor: Prof. Dr Gerhard Penzkofer
Second supervisors:
Class in the Graduate School: "Philosophy, Languages, Arts"
Doctorate in the Graduate School since WS 2010/2011.
Abstract:
The influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on the philosophical, artistic and literary development of the late 19th and early 20th century is enormous. Nietzsche's concepts of the superman, the eternal return of the same, the Apollonian-Dionysian dichotomy, the proclamation of the death of God and others left their mark on the literature of the '98, '14 and '27 generations - in short, on Spanish modernism.
The dissertation attempts to trace Nietzsche's influence by (1) discussing the conditions under which the philosopher was received in Spain, (2) presenting Nietzsche's philosophical and aesthetic constructs relevant to the textual work and (3) analysing the literary material in terms of Nietzsche's previously outlined theories in the actual textual analysis. In view of the radical openness of Nietzsche's oeuvre, it must also be analysed which intellectual attitude underlies the respective reception - a European or nationalistic, a free-spirited or anti-Semitic one? The work is rounded off with narrative analyses and descriptions of the historical and artistic developments of the time that found their way into the literary text material.
