ABSTRACT
The first movement explores the inception of Nietzsche's The Birth of Tragedy to clarify its significance to the literary works discussed in this book. It looks at how and to what extent Nietzsche's engagement with Schopenhauer's The World as Will and Representation and Wagner's Beethoven nourished his thinking about the roles of music and myth, his development of the Apollo/Dionysus dichotomy and his conception of Dionysian music. Nietzsche's early aesthetic theories of music and myth had a significant impact on the modern novel. This movement seeks to explore how the music-myth connection emerged in The Birth of Tragedy, which in turn will elucidate how Rolland, Joyce and Mann respond to it in their novels.
