Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka's Cages

Dimitris Vardoulakis; Kiarina Kordela

doi:10.1057/9780230118959

Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka's Cages

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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 language	English
Place of Publication	U.S.
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages	244
ISBN (Print)	9780230113428
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118959
Publication status	Published - 2011

Keywords

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

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