Nietzsche and Modernism: Nihilism and Suffering in Lawrence, Kafka and Beckett

by Stewart Smith

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:331975534X

ISBN13:9783319755342

Release Date:May 2018

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:236 Pages

Weight:0.99 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"

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