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- Title
Kafka's Law-Writing Apparatus: A Study in Torture, A Study in Discipline.
- Authors
Boyer, Daniel W.
- Abstract
The article discusses the claim that author Franz Kafka's law-writing Apparatus in the short story "In the Penal Colony" foreshadows critical theorist Michel Foucault's analysis of monarchical punishment and modern discipline, and it mentions issues related to torture and Kafka's work as a lawyer at the Workmen's Accident Insurance Institute of Bohemia in Prague, Czech Republic. Foucault's book "Discipline and Punish" is examined, along with differences in the authors' notions of power.
- Subjects
KAFKA, Franz, 1883-1924; LAW in literature; IN the Penal Colony (Short story); TORTURE in literature; DISCIPLINE &; Punish (Book); FOUCAULT, Michel, 1926-1984; PUNISHMENT in literature; POWER (Social sciences) in literature
- Publication
Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities, 2015, Vol 27, Issue 1, p83
- ISSN
1041-6374
- Publication type
Article