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" Kafka's creatures : "
edited by Marc Lucht and Donna Yarri.
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1006904
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b761274
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Kafka's creatures : : animals, hybrids, and other fantastic beings /\ edited by Marc Lucht and Donna Yarri.
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Lanham, Md. :: Lexington Books,, ©2010.
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1 online resource (x, 296 pages) :: illustrations
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0739143948
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: 9780739143940
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: 9780739143964
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: 9781282713208
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: 9786612713200
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9780739143940
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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| Contents
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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.
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Kafka, Franz,1883-1924-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Kafka, Franz,1883-1924
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Animals in literature.
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Animals, Mythical, in literature.
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Human-animal relationships in literature.
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Animals in literature.
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Animals, Mythical, in literature.
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Human-animal relationships in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- German.
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| Dewey Classification
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833/.912
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PT2621.A26Z76125 2010eb
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Lucht, Marc,1969-
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Yarri, Donna.
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