Kafka's nonhuman form : troubling the boundaries of the kafkaesque / Ted Geier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Geier, Ted (Theodore), author.

Series:

Palgrave pivot

Palgrave studies in animals and literature

Palgrave Pivot

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals in literature.

Physical Description:

xi, 121 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

[New York, N.Y.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319403939

3319403931

OCLC:

958394358

Publisher Number:

9783319403939