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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Kafka’s Cages: An Introduction
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Interpreting Kafka’s Cages
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Reconceptualizations of Kafka’s Cages
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Performatives of Kafka’s Cages
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Reviews
'Focusing on one of Kafka's crucial problem images the cage, the prisoner, the question of imprisonment, escape, and freedom Freedom and Confinement in Modernity does away with the misleading conception of imprisonment as lack of freedom. Instead, it combines a rich variety of approaches to unfold the cage as agent of cultural productivity and of literature itself. This volume provides a shining example of collaboration between philosophy, cultural studies, and literary theory.' - Benno Wagner, Professor, Siegen University, Germany
'The essays collected in Freedom and Confinement in Modernity set out to pursue a novel approach to Kafka's world. The focus on the figure of the 'cage' is thoughtful and original, as it allows us to rethink the literary specificity of Kafka's texts in terms of broader sociopolitical concerns, and situates Kafka's challenging work at the transdisciplinary core of fields as diverse as aesthetic theory, political philosophy, literary history, and psychoanalysis. This is a marvelous and thought-provoking volume.' - Gerhard Richter, Professor of German and Director of the Graduate Program in Critical Theory, University of California, Davis
'The power to stimulate fresh questions rather than put to rest earlier ones is surely a mark of what we have come to call greatness in a writer. Few have matched Kafka in generating successive challenges to conventional wisdom not only about literature, but also about life. In Freedom and Confinement in Modernity we come to know a new Kafka, who forces us to rethink many of our assumptions about the delicate relationship between constraint and emancipation in the modern era.' - Martin Jay, Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History, University of California Berkeley
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Freedom and Confinement in Modernity
Book Subtitle: Kafka's Cages
Editors: A. Kiarina Kordela, Dimitris Vardoulakis
Series Title: Studies in European Culture and History
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230118959
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2011
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-11342-8Published: 28 April 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-29526-5Published: 28 April 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-11895-9Published: 09 May 2011
Series ISSN: 2945-6274
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6282
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 244
Topics: Modern History, Social History, Literature, general, European Literature, History of Germany and Central Europe, Fiction