Title Kafka's creatures : animals, hybrids, and other fantastic beings / edited by Marc Lucht and Donna Yarri

Published Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (x, 296 pages) Contents 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 Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes Notes English Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed Subject Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 Animals in literature. Animals, Mythical, in literature. Human-animal relationships in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German. Animals in literature Animals, Mythical, in literature Human-animal relationships in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Lucht, Marc, 1969- Yarri, Donna LC no. 2021675305 ISBN 9780739143964 0739143964 1282713205 9781282713208 9786612713200 6612713208 0739143964

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