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MACMILLAN Nietzsche and Modernism: Nihilism and Suffering in Lawrence, Kafka and Beckett (Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature)

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Product Description 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. Review “By reading these major modern writers in the light of Nietzsche’s theme of undeserved suffering Stewart Smith throws a surprising new light on familiar texts. Above all, his analysis pitched ‘beyond good and evil’ persuasively reveals and resists the gravitational pull of the ethical in much mainstream commentary.” (Emeritus Professor Michael Bell, University of Warwick, UK) From the Back Cover 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. About the Author Stewart Smith is an independent scholar. He obtained his PhD from the University of Southampton in 2016.

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Brand: MACMILLAN
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ASIN: 331975534X
Category: Books > Subjects > Poetry, Drama & Criticism > History & Criticism > Literary Theory & Movements
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Release Date: 18 May 2018
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