On Literary Plasticity: Readings with Kafka in Ecology, Voice, and Object-Life calls to Franz Kafka, and in particular ‘Die Sorge des Hausvaters’, for aid in charting the long reach of plastic on the human mind and world.

“On Literary Plasticity: Readings with Kafka in Ecology, Voice, and Object-Life is incredibly well-researched and clearly written, structured such that Kafka becomes a compelling way of thinking through plasticity. Yeung offers a new theory of the literary object, creating a study that is ultimately a work of literary and cultural theory as much as it is a book on Kafka.”—Claire Colebrook, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of English, Philosophy, and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Pennsylvania State University, USA  “The experience of reading this short monograph is discovering a plastic oikos that is fervent, fierce, and fecund. Drop in Kafka, plastic imagination, entanglement, the non-linearity of thinking, and the teeming possibilities emerging from a plastic milieu, the space sets up an enthralling journey in literary plasticity. The plastic hauntings are deep and pervasive.” —Ranjan Ghosh, University of North Bengal, India,and co-author (with J. Hillis Miller) of Thinking Literature across Continents (2016) and author of The Plastic Turn (forthcoming)

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