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From Odysseus to Rotpeter: Adorno and Kafka, mimicry and happiness
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.
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Edinburgh University PressBook title
Modernism and affectPlace of publication
EdinburghISBN
9780748693252Department affiliated with
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Julie TaylorLegacy Posted Date
2015-09-03Usage metrics
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