Writing like a rat
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20470000 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maud Ellmann (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 59-76 |
| Publication date | 2004-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-1562 • E-ISSN: 1467-8705 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.0011-1562.2004.00597.x |
| OpenAlex | W1981708518 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
According to Deleuze and Guattari, Kafka's experiments with animality epitomise the responsibility of the artist: 'either stop writing, or write like a rat'. The present essay examines how modernist writing tackles this strange responsibility. The first section provides a brief synopsis of facts and fictions about rats, focusing on the animals' association with the networks of modernity; a further section examines the role of rats in Freud's case history of the Rat Man; and the conclusion discusses the role of the rat in modernist writing, particularly in the works of Eliot, Joyce, Lewis, and Beckett
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Epistemology · Literature · Modernity · Psychoanalysis · Section (typography) · Computer Science · Franz Kafka Literary Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Samuel Beckett and Modernism
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2011 - 2022 (12) |
| Highly cited | No |