Freedom and Confinement in Modernity : Kafka's Cages /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2011.
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| Series: | Studies in European culture and history.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780230118959 |
| DOI: | 10.1057/9780230118959 |