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Hunger and Modern Writing: Melville, Kafka, Hamsun, and Wright

Daniel Rees · 2016

76,082 words · about 5 h 20 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Author
Daniel Rees
Language
English
Published
2016
Length
76,082 words · about 5 h 20 min
Sections
4 reader sections
Text
Digital text
Rights
CC BY 4.0 · repository export licence (OAPEN)

 

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Front matter

DANIEL REES

Hunger and Modern Writing Melville, Kafka, Hamsun, and Wright

Daniel Rees - Hunger and Modern Writing

Part 1: Herman Melville and Franz Kafka

1. “ would prefer not to”: Absence and Appetite in Herman Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener”

1.1 “Dollars damn me...”

1.3 The mechanical scrivener

2. Alienation and the Unknown Nourishment in Franz Kafka’s Die Verwandlung and “Ein Hungerkünstler”

2.1 Kafka’s modernism 22 Kafka’s Die Verwandlung 2.3 Kafka’s “Ein Hungerkünstler”

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