Haynes, Doug (2015) From Odysseus to Rotpeter: Adorno and Kafka, mimicry and happiness. In: Taylor, Julie (ed.) Modernism and affect. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. ISBN 9780748693252

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Abstract

This essay considers Adorno and Horkheimer's ideas of happiness from Dialectic of Enlightenment and Adorno's writing on Kafka to consider Kafka's own short story A Report to an Academy. I formulate a notion of mimicry that breaks away from Nietzschean or even Benjaminian ideas - for Kafka, mimicry is an uncanny mirror that can be critical, that gives back more than one bargained for.

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	critical theory. Adorno. Kafka. Mimicry. Affect.
Schools and Departments:	School of English > English
Subjects:	P Language and Literature
Depositing User:	Douglas Haynes
Date Deposited:	03 Sep 2015 07:46
Last Modified:	03 Sep 2015 07:46
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/54600

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