Kafka's Nonhuman Form: Troubling the Boundaries of the Kafkaesque

by Ted Geier

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319820923
• ISBN13: 9783319820927
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 121 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.3"