| Kafka's Nonhuman Form: Troubling the Boundaries of the Kafkaesque 2016 Edition Contributor(s): Geier, Ted (Author) |
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ISBN: 3319403931 ISBN-13: 9783319403939 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - General - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | Modern - 20th Century |
| Dewey: 801 |
| Series: Palgrave Studies in Animals and Literature |
| Physical Information: 0.52" H x 6.05" W x 8.73" (0.64 lbs) 121 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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". |