Freedom and confinement in modernity

Description:

Franz Kafka's literary universe is organized around constellations of imprisonment. Freedom and Confinement in Modernity proposes that imprisonment does not signify a tortured state of the individual in modernity. Rather, it allows Kafka to perform a critique of a modernity that first posits a clear-cut opposition between confinement and freedom, and then sets up freedom as an ideal which, conceived in such absolute terms, is by definition unattainable.

subjects: Self (Philosophy) in literature,  Criticism and interpretation,  Liberty in literature,  Imprisonment in literature,  Kafka, franz, 1883-1924,  Self in literature,  German fiction, history and criticism,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  European,  German,  Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers,  Literary studies: from c 1900,  Literature

People: Franz Kafka (1883-1924)