Title: Freedom and confinement in modernity
Description: 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.
Subjects: Self (Philosophy) in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Liberty in literature, Imprisonment in literature, Kafka, franz, 1883-1924, Self in literature, German fiction, history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM, European, German, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: from c 1900, Literature
People: Franz Kafka (1883-1924)