Freedom and Confinement in Modernity Kafka's Cages
Description
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.
Keywords
HistoryModernSocial HistoryLiterary CriticismEuropeanEuropeFiction
2011Book
Author(s)Aglaia Kiarina Kordela, Dimitris Vardoulakis
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan US
ISBN9780230113428
LanguageEnglish
