TY  - BOOK
AU  - Smith,Stewart
TI  - Nietzsche and modernism: nihilism and suffering in lawrence, Kafka and Beckett 
T2  - Palgrave studies in modern European literature
SN  - 9783319755342 (hbk.) :
U1  - 809.9'112 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Basingstoke, Hampshire
PB  - Palgrave Macmillan
KW  - Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm,
KW  - Lawrence, D. H.
KW  - Kafka, Franz,
KW  - Beckett, Samuel,
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Philosophy in literature
KW  - Literature
KW  - eflch
KW  - ukslc
N1  - Specialized
N2  - 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 dramatise 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
ER  -