Freedom and Confinement in Modernity
Author | : A. Kordela |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2011-05-09 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780230118959 |
ISBN-13 | : 023011895X |
Rating | : 4/5 (95X Downloads) |
Download or read book Freedom and Confinement in Modernity written by A. Kordela and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-05-09 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.