Chambers of Consciousness and Houses of Life: Nietzschean Hermeneutics in Arthur Machen’s The Great God Pan
Neophilologus June 25, 2023 Eduardo Valls Oyarzun 1 citation
Abstract This article provides a comparative study of the underlying cognitive structures laid out in Arthur Machen’s decadent novellaThe Great God Pan(1894) and Friedrich Nietzsche’s “On Truth and Lying in a Non-Moral Sense” (1873). It scrutinizes the images of the “chamber of consciousness” and “the house of life”, deployed by the German philosopher and the Welsh author respectively, and...