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

• Main Author: Smith, Stewart (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Modern European Literature
• Subjects: Literature, Modern-20th century.; European literature.; Continental Philosophy.; Twentieth-Century Literature.; European Literature.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.