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Two versions of death: The transformation of the literary corpse in Kafka and Stevenson
Two versions of death: The transformation of the literary corpse in Kafka and Stevenson
dc.contributor.author | Danta, English | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-11-25T13:51:19Z | |
dc.date.available | 2021-11-25T13:51:19Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This essay makes the claim for Robert Louis Stevenson being a precursor of Franz Kafka in order to offer a new reading of Stevenson`s 1886 `shilling shocker`, Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Drawing on a well known letter Kafka wrote to Max Brod in 1922 about the writer`s relation to his own death and an important entry from Stevenson`s notebooks on the same subject, it argues that Jekyll`s transformation into Hyde represents not the splitting of his (moral) personality but rather the paradoxical appearance of his death. In presenting death as a paradoxical form of transformation, Jekyll and Hyde can be read as the allegorical foreshadowing of Stevenson`s own death by stroke on Samoa in 1894. When read in conjunction with Kafka`s Metamorphosis, it also demands that we reconsider the theoretically vexing relation of literature to the body. | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1959.4/41369 | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | EN | en_US |
dc.rights | CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 | en_US |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/au/ | en_US |
dc.source | Legacy MARC | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Stevenson | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Kafka | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Nabokov | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Blanchot | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Ranciere | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Jekyll and Hyde | en_US |
dc.subject.other | Metamorphosis | en_US |
dc.subject.other | corpse | en_US |
dc.subject.other | death | en_US |
dc.subject.other | literature | en_US |
dc.subject.other | the body | en_US |
dc.title | Two versions of death: The transformation of the literary corpse in Kafka and Stevenson | en_US |
dc.type | Journal Article | en |
dcterms.accessRights | metadata only access | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | en_US |
unsw.accessRights.uri | http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_14cb | |
unsw.relation.faculty | Arts Design & Architecture | |
unsw.relation.ispartofissue | 2 | en_US |
unsw.relation.ispartofjournal | Textual Practice | en_US |
unsw.relation.ispartofpagefrompageto | 281-300 | en_US |
unsw.relation.ispartofvolume | 20 | en_US |
unsw.relation.originalPublicationAffiliation | Danta, English, Media, & Performing Arts, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, UNSW | en_US |
unsw.relation.school | School of the Arts & Media | * |