Studies in European Culture and History: Kafka's Cages

Kordela, A.; Vardoulakis, D.

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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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2011-04-28

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780230113428

DOI: 10.1057/9780230118959

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 244