Nietzschean Parody appeared first in the mid-1970s as the author was beginning to grapple with the idea of how thinkers & writers represented their world. In the earlier edition the relationship between model and parody is viewed from Nietzsche's own theoretical utterances & their relationship to the historical context of his time as well as from a number of parodic contexts. A series of the practical illustrations presents the general pattern of the interrelationship between Nietzsche & one of his models. Each section centers on one of the poems in Nietzsche's "Lieder des Prinzen Vogelfrei" ("Songs of Prince Free-as-a-bird"), 1887, the central parodic document in his lyric production. For this second revised edition, Professor Gilman has added a new chapter on the function of a parodic rereading of Nietzsche's biography. This book continues to add substantially to an innovative re-reading of Nietzsche that has implications for all of his work - from the juvenilia to Zarathustra & beyond.