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

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 fra...

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1. Verfasser: Smith, Stewart (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Ausgabe:1st ed. 2018.
Schriftenreihe:Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
Schlagworte:
Literature, Modern-20th century.
European literature.
Continental Philosophy.
ISBN:9783319755359
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 1. Introduction: Nietzsche, Nihilism and Modernism
  • 2. Friedrich Nietzsche, Nihilism and Meaningless Suffering
  • 3. D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover and the Erotic Transcendence of Nihilism
  • 4. Franz Kafka's The Trial and the Interpretation of Suffering
  • 5. Samuel Beckett's Endgame and the Economy of Ressentiment
  • 6. Conclusion: Affective Modernism.

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