Review of Decay and Renewal: Critical Essays on Twentieth Century Writing by Jack Lindsay and Nietzsche in Australia: A Literary Inquiry into a Nationalistic Ideology by Noel Macainsh
Abstract
The epigraph to Noel Macainsh's study comes from Jack Lindsay's 1948 Meanjin essay, 'Zarathustra in Queensland'. Lindsay later substantially incorporated this essay into the first volume of his autobiography, and one of the chapters in this has the same title as Nietzsche in Australia. There are other associations between the two books under review, with Jack Lindsay briefly glimpsed as a minor character in Macainsh's account of P.R. Stephensen's formative years; but their most important relationship is that both are books which contribute valuably to the placing of Australian culture in an international context, and to the tracing of the history of ideas in this country.
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Published 1 May 1978 in Volume 8 No. 3. Subjects: Jack Lindsay, Nietzsche.
Cite as: Kiernan, Brian. ‘Review of Decay and Renewal: Critical Essays on Twentieth Century Writing by Jack Lindsay and Nietzsche in Australia: A Literary Inquiry into a Nationalistic Ideology by Noel Macainsh.’ Australian Literary Studies, vol. 8, no. 3, 1978, doi: 10.20314/als.f8e0bcae74.