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Title:

Freedom and confinement in modernity : Kafka's cages / edited by A. Kiarina Kordela and Dimitris Vardoulakis.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Palgrave Macmillan,

Copyright Date:

2011

Description:

xi, 244 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Kafka, Franz,--1883-1924--Criticism and interpretation.
Liberty in literature.
Self (Philosophy) in literature.
Imprisonment in literature.

Other Authors:

Kordela, Aglaia Kiarina, 1963-
Vardoulakis, Dimitris.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Special views on Kafka's cages / Stanley Corngold -- Delusions of agency : Kafka, imprisonment, and modern victimhood / Chris Fleming and John O'Carroll -- Kafka and Derrida before the laws / Howard Caygill -- Kafka's cage / John Mowitt -- The fall is the proof of our freedom : mediated freedom in Kafka / Dimitris Vardoulakis -- Workforce without possessions : Kafka, social justice, and the word religion / Peter Fenves -- Kafkaesque : (secular) Kabbalah and allegory / A. Kiarina Kordela -- The ethics and beauty of the trial : Kafka's circumscription of failure / Ross Shields -- Kafka's fatal performatives : between bad conscience and betrayed vulnerability / Karyn Ball -- How is the trapeze possible? / Christophe Bident -- With impunity / Henry Sussman.

Series:

Studies in European culture and history

ISBN:

0230113427
9780230113428

OCLC:

(OCoLC)670481130

LCCN:

2010042508

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)