Hunger and Modern Writing : Melville, Kafka, Hamsun, and Wright /
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Author / Creator: | Daniel, Rees. |
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Imprint: | [Place of publication not identified] : Modern Academic Publishing, 2016. |
Description: | 1 online resource |
Language: | English |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12646819 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Summary
- Introduction
- II. Theoretical Overview of Hunger and Modern Writing
- Part 1: Herman Melville and Franz Kafka: "'I would prefer not to'": Absence and Appetite in Herman Melville's "Bartleby, the Scrivener"
- 2. Alienation and the Unknown Nourishment in Franz Kafka's Die Verwandlung and "Ein Hungerkünstler"
- Part 2: Knut Hamsun and Richard Wright: 3 Starvation and Self-Destructiveness in Knut Hamsun'sHunger (Sult)
- 4. Hunger and Self-Fashioning in Richard Wright's Black Boy(American Hunger)
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations and Works Cited