Freedom and Confinement in Modernity: Kafka's Cages

by Dimitris Vardoulakis and A. Kiarina Kordela

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230113427
• ISBN13: 9780230113428
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"