03499nam 2200397 450 991047693260332120230511211536.0(CKB)5470000000566904(NjHacI)995470000000566904(EXLCZ)99547000000056690420230511d2016 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierHunger and modern writing Melville, Kafka, Hamsun, and Wright /Rees DanielKöln :Modern Academic Publishing,[2016]©20161 online resource (160 pages)3-946198-18-X 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."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 and modern literature. Exploring how it is bound up with the writer's role in modern society this study draws on two conflicting and complex views of hunger: the first is material, relating to the body as a physical entity that has a material existence in reality. Hunger, in this sense, is a physiological process that affects the body as a result of the need for food, the lack of which can lead to discomfort, listlessness, and eventually death. The second view is that of hunger as an appetite of the mind, the kind of hunger for immaterial things that is associated with an individual's desire for a new form of knowledge, sentiment, or a different way of perceiving the reality of the world. By discussing the selected authors' conceptualization of hunger as both desire and absence of desire, or as both a creative and a destructive force, it examines how it has influenced literary representations of modern life. This study then offers a focused approach to a broad field of inquiry and presents analyses that address a variety of critical perspectives on hunger and modern literature. Daniel Rees completed his PhD in American and Comparative Literature at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. His research interests include Anglo-American and European literature of the modern period. He has worked as a freelance editor and translator since 2004 and contributed publications in the e-journal Current Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies and to Orchid Press".Hunger and Modern WritingAlienation (Social psychology)Hunger in literatureAlienation (Social psychology)Hunger in literature.302.544Daniel Rees1261445NjHacINjHaclBOOK9910476932603321Hunger and Modern Writing2937311UNINA