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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Marc Lucht and Donna Yarri - Contributions by Andrea Baer; Esther K. Bauer; Melissa De Bruyker; Thomas H. Ford; Hadea Nell Kriesberg; Naama Harel; Eleanor Helms; Burkhard Müller; Margot Norris; Tahia Thaddeus Reynaga; Henry Sussman; Dean Swinfor Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. Kafka's Hybrids: Thinking Animals and Mirrored HumansChapter 3. "Czechs, Jews and Dogs Not Allowed": Identity, Boundary and Moral Stance in Kafka's "A Crossbreed" and "Jackals and Arabs"Chapter 4. De-allegorizing Kafka's Ape: Two Animalistic ContextsChapter 5. Agents of the Forgotten: Animals as the Vehicles of Shame in KafkaChapter 6. The Difficult Task of Being Real: Odradek, the Kittenlamb, and the Historical IndividualChapter 7. Consolation in Your Neighbour's Fur: On Kafka's Animal ParablesChapter 8. Crowds, Animals, and Aesthetic Language in Kafka's "Josephine"Chapter 9. Performative Emotion in Kafka's "Josephine, the Singer; or, the Mouse Folk" and Freud's "The Creative Writer and Daydreamer"Chapter 10. The Power of the Look: Franz Kafka's "The Cares of a Family Man"Chapter 11. Four Hands Good, Two Hands BadChapter 12. Who identified the animal? The rhetoric behind the hybrid in Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" and Amerika (The man who disappeared)Chapter 13. The Portrait of an Armor-Plated Sign: Reimagining Samsa's ExoskeletonChapter 14. Extraterrestrial Kafka: Ahead to the Graphic NovelChapter 15. Index to Kafka's Use of Creatures in His Writings...
