书目名称 | Kafka’s Nonhuman Form |
副标题 | Troubling the Bounda |
编辑 | Ted Geier |
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概述 | Recasts Kafka’s works to reveal a deeper political purpose behind the appearances of nonhuman forms.Bridges recent theories included within the “nonhuman” turn with close literary analyses of Kafka‘s |
丛书名称 | Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature |
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描述 | .This book 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. Through careful attention to the formal predicaments of Kafka’s works and engaging with Kafka’s original legal and social thought in his novels and short stories, this book renders Kafka’s sometimes impossibly enigmatic work legible at the level of its expression, bringing surprising shape to his work and redefining what scholars and readers have understood as the “Kafkaesque”.. |
出版日期 | Book 2016 |
关键词 | Franz Kafka; Nonhuman; Animal; Species; The Metamorphosis |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40394-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-82092-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-40394-6Series ISSN 2634-6338 Series E-ISSN 2634-6346 |
issn_series | 2634-6338 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |