Abstract
This thesis is a comparative study of alienation. It provides an analysis of the different ways in which the Czech writer, Franz Kafka, and the South African writer, J.M. Coetzee delineate alienation in their works, The Trial and Foe. Three aspects of alienation are discussed: alienation from self, world and language. Hence, the thesis emphasizes that manâ s predicament of alienation, homelessness and exile stems from a failure to recognize a self to which he can relate, an inability to find a home in an alien universe and an incapacity to develop a constructive relationship with words and language. This study not only focuses on manâ s existential predicament of alienation, but it also reveals that alienation is an experience that writer and reader go through in their encounter with a work of art. Thus, this study also explores the nature of a work of art and is concerned with the effects of literature on the reader.
School
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department
English & Comparative Literature Department
Degree Name
MA in English & Comparative Literature
Date of Award
6-1-2003
Online Submission Date
1-1-2003
First Advisor
Nimis, Stephen
Committee Member 1
Nimis, Stephen
Committee Member 2
Melaney, William
Document Type
Thesis
Extent
93 leaves
Library of Congress Subject Heading 1
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature.
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APA Citation
Abou Zeid, A.
(2003).The castaway: a comparative study of alienation in Franz Kafka's "The Trial" and J.M. Coetzee's "Foe" [Thesis, the American University in Cairo]. AUC Knowledge Fountain.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/retro_etds/1677
MLA Citation
Abou Zeid, Alia Mohamed Taher Ahmed Tawfik. The castaway: a comparative study of alienation in Franz Kafka's "The Trial" and J.M. Coetzee's "Foe". 2003. American University in Cairo, Thesis. AUC Knowledge Fountain.
https://fount.aucegypt.edu/retro_etds/1677
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Call Number
Thesis 2003/5
Location
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