Nietzsche and Modernism [electronic resource] : Nihilism and Suffering in Lawrence, Kafka and Beckett / by Stewart Smith.

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Nietzsche and Modernism [electronic resource] : Nihilism and Suffering in Lawrence, Kafka and Beckett / by Stewart Smith.

3319755358
9783319755359
9783319755342 (hbk.)

[Place of publication not identified] : Springer International Publishing, [date of publication not identified]
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.

English

1 online resource (XI, 236 pages).

10.1007/978-3-319-75535-9 doi

PN770-PN779

809.04

Reconfiguring Nietzsche's seminal impact on modernist literature and culture, this book presents a distinctive new reading of modernism by exploring his sustained philosophical engagement with nihilism and its inextricable tie to pain and sickness. Arguing that modernist texts dramatize the frailty of the ill, the impotent, and the traumatised modern subject denuded of the traditional means to justify or redeem one's suffering, it uses the Nietzschean diagnoses of nihilism and what he calls 'ressentiment', the entwined feelings of powerlessness and vindictiveness, as heuristic tools to remap the fictional landscapes of Lawrence, Kafka, and Beckett. Lucid, authoritative and accessible, this book will appeal internationally to literature and philosophy scholars and undergraduates as well as to readers in medical and sociological fields.

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Palgrave studies in modern European literature.

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