Transnational Modernism and the Problem of Temporal Spatialisation in Franz Kafka’s “The Great Wall of China”
Verita Sriratana
a b s t r a c t
On the level of textual content, it can be said that modernist literature reflects a preoccupation with the change in one’s views on and understanding of time and space in relation to human existence. The modernist project centres upon in-depth observation and representation of a distinct moment in time, rather than a chronological chain of events which has been understood to be the focus of literary realism. (...)
