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Kafka's creatures :

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0739143948

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9780739143940

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9780739143964

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9780739143940

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Title Proper

Kafka's creatures :

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[Book]

Other Title Information

animals, hybrids, and other fantastic beings /

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Marc Lucht and Donna Yarri.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Lanham, Md. :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Lexington Books,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

©2010.

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1 online resource (x, 296 pages) :

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illustrations

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Introduction / Marc Lucht -- Kafka's hybrids: thinking animals and mirrored humans / Margot Norris -- "Czechs, Jews and dogs not allowed": identity, boundary, and moral stance in Kafka's "A crossbreed" and "Jackals and Arabs" / Hadea Nell Kriesberg -- De-allegorizing Kafka's ape: two animalistic contexts / Naama Harel -- Agents of the forgotten: animals as the vehicles of shame in Kafka / Tahia Thaddeus Reynaga -- The difficult task of being real: Odradek, the kittenlamb, and the historical individual / Eleanor Helms -- Consolation in your neighbor's fur: on Kafka's animal parables / Burkhard Müller -- Crowds, animality, and aesthetic language in Kafka's "Josephine" / Thomas H. Ford -- Performative emotion in Kafka's "Josephine, the singer; or, the mouse folks," and Freud's "The creative writer and daydreaming" / Andrea Baer -- The power of the look: Franz Kafka's "The cares of a family man" / Esther K. Bauer -- Four hands good, two hands bad / Tom Tyler -- Who identified the animal? Hybridity and body politics in Kafka's "The metamorphosis" and Amerika (The man who disappeared) / Melissa De Bruyker -- The portrait of an armor-plated sign: reimagining Samsa's exoskeleton / Dean Swinford -- Extraterrestrial Kafka: ahead to the graphic novel / Henry Sussman -- Index to Kafka's use of creatures in his writings / Donna Yarri.

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Kafka''s Creatures: Animals, Hybrids, and Other Fantastic Beings is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Franz Kafka''s use of non-human creatures in his writings. It is written from a variety of interpretive perspectives and highlights diverse ways of understanding how Kafka''s use of these creatures illuminate his work in general.

Title

Kafka's creatures.

International Standard Book Number

9780739143940

Kafka, Franz,1883-1924-- Criticism and interpretation.

Kafka, Franz,1883-1924

Animals in literature.

Animals, Mythical, in literature.

Human-animal relationships in literature.

Animals in literature.

Animals, Mythical, in literature.

Human-animal relationships in literature.

LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- German.

LIT-- 004170

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Lucht, Marc,1969-

Yarri, Donna.

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20201204205714.0

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