Freedom and Confinement in Modernity [electronic resource] : Kafka's Cages /
Kordela, A.editor.
Vardoulakis, D.editor.
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 provides a new reading of imprisonment suggesting it allows Kafka to perform a critique of a modernity instead.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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 provides a new reading of imprisonment suggesting it allows Kafka to perform a critique of a modernity instead.
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
History, Modern.
Social history.
Literature.
European literature.
Europe, Central-History.
Fiction.
Modern History.
Social History.
Literature, general.
European Literature.
History of Germany and Central Europe.
Fiction.