Kafka's Nonhuman Form : Troubling the Boundaries of the Kafkaesque / by Ted Geier.
2016
PN1-6790
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Title
Kafka's Nonhuman Form : Troubling the Boundaries of the Kafkaesque / by Ted Geier.
Author
Geier, Ted, author.
ISBN
9783319403946
331940394X
3319403931
9783319403939
331940394X
3319403931
9783319403939
Published
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (XI, 121 pages 1 illustration in color.) : online resource
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-319-40394-6. doi
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PN1-6790
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.4
Summary
This book is a compact study of Kafkas inimitable literary style, animals, and ecological thought--his nonhuman form--that proceeds through original close readings of Kafkas oeuvre. With select engagements of Adorno, Derrida, and the literary heritage from Romanticism to Dickens that influenced Kafka, Ted Geier discusses Kafkas 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 Kafkas works and engaging with Kafkas original legal and social thought in his novels and short stories, this book renders Kafkas 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". Ted Geier is currently Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Rice University and the founder of the Interdisciplinary Animal Studies Group at the University of California, Davis, USA. He has taught comparative literature, cinema, Romanticism, and American cultural studies at San Francisco State University, Davis, and Rice. He is the author of articles and book chapters on animals and ecology in the works of Italo Calvino, recent world literature, and British literature of the long nineteenth century, in addition to ecocinema, especially in the work of Terrence Malick
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Palgrave studies in animals and literature.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Present progression, always-already: grammars of the nonhuman
Chapter One: Digging in (not digging it): obsessive creatures and sociality
Chapter Two: Finding oneself awoken from: nonhuman metamorphoses
Chapter Three: Unlike a dog, having done nothing wrong: after the law
Conclusion: Interminable subjects
Works Cited or Consulted
Index.
Chapter One: Digging in (not digging it): obsessive creatures and sociality
Chapter Two: Finding oneself awoken from: nonhuman metamorphoses
Chapter Three: Unlike a dog, having done nothing wrong: after the law
Conclusion: Interminable subjects
Works Cited or Consulted
Index.