Kafka's nonhuman form : troubling the boundaries of the Kafkaesque / Ted Geier.
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TextSeries: Palgrave studies in animals and literaturePublisher: Cham : Springer, 2016Description: 1 volume : illustration (colour) ; 21 cmContent type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9783319403939 (hbk.) :Subject(s): Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation | Literature | LiteratureDDC classification: 833.9'12 Summary: This volume is a compact study of Kafka's inimitable literary style, animals, and ecological thought - his nonhuman form - that proceeds through original close readings of Kafka's oeuvre. With select engagements of Adorno, Derrida, and the literary heritage from Romanticism to Dickens that influenced Kafka, Ted Geier discusses Kafka's literary, 'nonhuman' form and the way it unsettles the notion of a natural and simple existence that society and culture impose, including the boundaries between human and animal.
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| 832.912 WIL Brecht in context : comparative approaches / | 832.914 DUR The visit : a tragi-comedy / | 833.912 DEL Kafka : toward a minor literature / | 833.912 GEI Kafka's nonhuman form : troubling the boundaries of the Kafkaesque / | 833.912 KAF The castle / | 833.912 KAF Metamorphosis and other stories / | 833.912 KOE Kafka : a guide for the perplexed / |
This volume is a compact study of Kafka's inimitable literary style, animals, and ecological thought - his nonhuman form - that proceeds through original close readings of Kafka's oeuvre. With select engagements of Adorno, Derrida, and the literary heritage from Romanticism to Dickens that influenced Kafka, Ted Geier discusses Kafka's literary, 'nonhuman' form and the way it unsettles the notion of a natural and simple existence that society and culture impose, including the boundaries between human and animal.
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