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Nietzsche and modernism : nihilism and suffering in lawrence, Kafka and Beckett / Stewart Smith.

By: Smith, Stewart [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Palgrave studies in modern European literaturePublisher: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018Description: 236 pages ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783319755342 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900 | Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930 -- Criticism and interpretation | Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation | Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation | Modernism (Literature) -- History and criticism | Philosophy in literature | Literature | LiteratureDDC classification: 809.9'112 Summary: 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.
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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 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.

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