Hunger and modern writing : : Melville, Kafka, Hamsun, and Wright / / Rees Daniel.
"Hunger is a contentious theme in modernist literature, and this study addresses its relevance in the works of four major American and European writers. Taking an in-depth look at works by Melville, Kafka, Hamsun, and Wright, it argues that hunger is deeply involved with concepts of modernity a...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Köln : : Modern Academic Publishing,, [2016] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (160 pages) |
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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 Hungerku¨nstler"
- 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.