Kafka's creatures : animals, hybrids, and other fantastic beings /

Kafka''s Creatures: Animals, Hybrids, and Other Fantastic Beings is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Franz Kafka''s use of non-human creatures in his writings. It is written from a variety of interpretive perspectives and highlights diverse ways of understanding how K...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Lucht, Marc, 1969-, Yarri, Donna
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2010.
Temas:
Kafka, Franz, > 1883-1924 > Criticism and interpretation.
Kafka, Franz, > 1883-1924
Animals in literature.
Animals, Mythical, in literature.
Human-animal relationships in literature.
Animaux dans la littérature.
Animaux fabuleux dans la littérature.
Relations homme-animal dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Animals in literature
Animals, Mythical, in literature
Human-animal relationships in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Marc Lucht
  • Kafka's hybrids: thinking animals and mirrored humans / Margot Norris
  • "Czechs, Jews and dogs not allowed": identity, boundary, and moral stance in Kafka's "A crossbreed" and "Jackals and Arabs" / Hadea Nell Kriesberg
  • De-allegorizing Kafka's ape: two animalistic contexts / Naama Harel
  • Agents of the forgotten: animals as the vehicles of shame in Kafka / Tahia Thaddeus Reynaga
  • The difficult task of being real: Odradek, the kittenlamb, and the historical individual / Eleanor Helms
  • Consolation in your neighbor's fur: on Kafka's animal parables / Burkhard Müller
  • Crowds, animality, and aesthetic language in Kafka's "Josephine" / Thomas H. Ford
  • Performative emotion in Kafka's "Josephine, the singer; or, the mouse folks," and Freud's "The creative writer and daydreaming" / Andrea Baer
  • The power of the look: Franz Kafka's "The cares of a family man" / Esther K. Bauer
  • Four hands good, two hands bad / Tom Tyler
  • Who identified the animal? Hybridity and body politics in Kafka's "The metamorphosis" and Amerika (The man who disappeared) / Melissa De Bruyker
  • The portrait of an armor-plated sign: reimagining Samsa's exoskeleton / Dean Swinford
  • Extraterrestrial Kafka: ahead to the graphic novel / Henry Sussman
  • Index to Kafka's use of creatures in his writings / Donna Yarri.

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