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Kafka's Creatures
. Ed(S): Lucht, Marc; Yarri, Donna
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Description for Kafka's Creatures
hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Lucht, Marc; Yarri, Donna. Num Pages: 306 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 166 x 22. Weight in Grams: 608.
There are few literary authors in whose work animals and other creatures play as prominent a role as they do in Franz Kafka's. Exploring multiple dimensions of Kafka's incorporation of nonhuman creatures into his writing, this volume is the first collection in English of essays devoted to illuminating this important and ubiquitous dimension of his work. The chapters here are written by an array of international scholars from various fields, and represent a diversity of interpretive approaches. In the course of exploring the roles played by nonhuman animals and other creatures in Kafka's writing, they help make sense of the ... Read more
There are few literary authors in whose work animals and other creatures play as prominent a role as they do in Franz Kafka's. Exploring multiple dimensions of Kafka's incorporation of nonhuman creatures into his writing, this volume is the first collection in English of essays devoted to illuminating this important and ubiquitous dimension of his work. The chapters here are written by an array of international scholars from various fields, and represent a diversity of interpretive approaches. In the course of exploring the roles played by nonhuman animals and other creatures in Kafka's writing, they help make sense of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Lexington Books United States
Number of pages
306
Condition
New
Number of Pages
306
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780739143940
SKU
V9780739143940
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About . Ed(S): Lucht, Marc; Yarri, Donna
Marc Lucht is visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Donna Yarri is associate professor of theology at Alvernia University.
Reviews for Kafka's Creatures
Kafka's affinity and empathy for animals led him to write numerous tales in which the central characters are thinking animals, human-animal hybrids, or fantastic creatures. These tales have traditionally been interpreted allegorically, as fables that reduce the human condition to its basic, enigmatic features. Lucht (philosophy, Virginia Tech) and Yarri (theology, Alvernia Univ.) have gathered suggestive, insightful critical analyses (representing ... Read more