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1 online resource |
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Studies in European culture and history |
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Studies in European culture and history.
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| Contents |
Special views on Kafka's cages / Stanley Corngold -- Delusions of agency: Kafka, imprisonment, and modern victimhood / Chris Fleming and John O'Carroll -- Kafka and Derrida before the laws / Howard Caygill -- Kafka's cage / John Mowitt -- "The fall is the proof of our freedom": mediated freedom in Kafka / Dimitris Vardoulakis -- Workforce without possessions: Kafka, "social justice," and the word religion / Peter Fenves -- Kafkaesque: (secular) Kabbalah and allegory / A. Kiarina Kordela -- The ethics and beauty of the trial: Kafka's circumscription of failure / Ross Shields -- Kafka's fatal performatives: between "bad conscience" and betrayed vulnerability / Karyn Ball -- How is the trapeze possible? / Christophe Bident -- With impunity / Henry Sussman |
| Summary |
Franz Kafka's literary universe is organized around constellations of imprisonment. Freedom and Confinement in Modernity proposes that imprisonment does not signify a tortured state of the individual in modernity. Rather, it allows Kafka to perform a critique of a modernity that first posits a clear-cut opposition between confinement and freedom, and then sets up freedom as an ideal which, conceived in such absolute terms, is by definition unattainable |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 fast |
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Liberty in literature.
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Self (Philosophy) in literature.
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Imprisonment in literature.
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Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers -- German.
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Literary studies: from c 1900 -- German.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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Literature.
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Imprisonment in literature
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Liberty in literature
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Self (Philosophy) in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kordela, Aglaia Kiarina, 1963-
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Vardoulakis, Dimitris.
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| ISBN |
9780230118959 |
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023011895X |
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9781349295265 |
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1349295264 |
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