Research Catalog

Title

Freedom and confinement in modernity : Kafka's cages / edited by A. Kiarina Kordela and Dimitris Vardoulakis.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kordela, Aglaia Kiarina, 1963-
• Vardoulakis, Dimitris.

Description

xi, 244 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Studies in European culture and history

Uniform Title

Studies in European culture and history.

Subjects

• Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 > Criticism and interpretation
• Liberty in literature
• Imprisonment in literature
• Self (Philosophy) in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Special views on Kafka's cages / Stanley Corngold -- Delusions of agency: Kafka, imprisonment, and modern victimhood / Chris Fleming and John O'Carroll -- Kafka and Derrida before the laws / Howard Caygill -- Kafka's cage / John Mowitt -- "The fall is the proof of our freedom": mediated freedom in Kafka / Dimitris Vardoulakis -- Workforce without possessions: Kafka, "social justice," and the word religion / Peter Fenves -- Kafkaesque: (secular) Kabbalah and allegory / A. Kiarina Kordela -- The ethics and beauty of the trial: Kafka's circumscription of failure / Ross Shields -- Kafka's fatal performatives: between "bad conscience" and betrayed vulnerability / Karyn Ball -- How is the trapeze possible? / Christophe Bident -- With impunity / Henry Sussman.

Call Number

JFD 12-2362

ISBN

• 9780230113428
• 0230113427

LCCN

2010042508

OCLC

YBP 2010042508

Title

Freedom and confinement in modernity : Kafka's cages / edited by A. Kiarina Kordela and Dimitris Vardoulakis.

Imprint

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Edition

1st ed.

Series

Studies in European culture and history

Studies in European culture and history.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Kordela, Aglaia Kiarina, 1963-

Vardoulakis, Dimitris.

Research Call Number

JFD 12-2362