Kafka's Nonhuman Form (e-book) (used book) | Ted Geier | bookbook.eu

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This book is a compact study of Kafka s inimitable literary style, animals, and ecological thought his nonhuman form that proceeds through original close readings of Kafka s oeuvre. With select engagements of Adorno, Derrida, and the literary heritage from Romanticism to Dickens that influenced Kafka, Ted Geier discusses Kafka s literary, nonhuman form and the way it unsettles the notion of a natural and simple existence that society and culture impose, including the boundaries between human and animal. Through careful attention to the formal predicaments of Kafka s works and engaging with Kafka s original legal and social thought in his novels and short stories, this book renders Kafka s sometimes impossibly enigmatic work legible at the level of its expression, bringing surprising shape to his work and redefining what scholars and readers have understood as the Kafkaesque .


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