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  title info:
    title: Kafka's zoopoetics
    sub title: beyond the human/animal barrier
  name:
    name part: Harel, Naama
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan)
    role:
      role term: publisher.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: miu
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xii, 199 pages)
  abstract: Kafka's Zoopoetics is the first extensive account of animals and human-animal relations in the work of Franz Kafka. The book appeals to a broad audience, including scholars and students of Comparative Literature, German Studies, Cultural Studies, and Human-Animal Studies. Kafka's pivotal role in world literature cannot be overestimated. Exploring the multidimensional relations between humans and animals, the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of Human-Animal Studies intertwines political and environmental critical paradigms, which are at the core of the contemporary intellectual discussion. Nonhuman figures are ubiquitous in the work of Franz Kafka, from his early stories down to his very last one. Despite their prominence throughout his oeuvre, Kafka's animal representations have been considered first and foremost as mere allegories of intrahuman matters. In recent years, the allegorization of Kafka's animals is poetically dismissed by Kafka's commentators and politically rejected by post-humanist scholars. Such critique, however, has yet to inspire either an overarching or an interdiscursive account. This book aims to fill this lacuna. Positing animal stories as a distinct and significant corpus within Kafka's entire poetics, and closely examining them in dialogue with both literary and post-humanist analysis, this book critically revisits animality, interspecies relations and the very human-animal contradistinction in the writings of Franz Kafka. Kafka's animals typically stand at the threshold between humanity and animality, fusing together human and nonhuman features. Among his liminal creatures we find a human transformed into vermin (in "The Metamorphosis"), an ape turned into a human being (in "A Report to an Academy"), talking jackals (in "Jackals and Arabs"), a philosophical dog (in "Researches of a Dog"), a contemplative mole-like creature (in "The Burrow", and indiscernible beings (in "Josefine, the Singer or the Mouse People"). Depicting species bo…
  note: Naama Harel.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-199) and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Kafka, Franz
      name part: 1883-1924
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Human-animal relationships in literature
  classification: PT2621.A26
  identifier: 9780472131792
  identifier: 9780472126514
  identifier: 0472126512
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11325807
  record info:
    record content source: EYM
    record creation date: 190828
    record change date: 20221129013228.1
    record identifier: in00004604683
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng