Nietzsche and Modernism

Nihilism and Suffering in Lawrence, Kafka and Beckett

By:

Stewart Smith

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Hardback

Series:

Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature

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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 unable to render suffering significant through traditional religious means, 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.

Author Biography:

Stewart Smith is an independent scholar. He obtained his PhD from the University of Southampton in 2016.

Release date NZ

May 18th, 2018

Author

Stewart Smith

Series

Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature

Pages

236

Edition

1st ed. 2018

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

XI, 236 p.

ISBN-13

9783319755342

Product ID

27581594

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