Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka’s Cages

Dimitris Vardoulakis, Kiarina Kordela

Research output: Book/Research ReportAuthored Book

Abstract

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.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationU.S.
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Number of pages244
ISBN (Print)9780230113428
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2011

Keywords

  • Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924
  • criticism and interpretation
  • liberty in literature
  • self (philosophy) in literature
  • imprisonment in literature

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