摘要：The present work is part of a larger effort of investigating the concept of man’s ontological and ideological liminality – such as between nature and civilisation; beastly and divine; and private and public. The interest in literary representations of human liminality lies primarily with their collocation with the aesthetic and cognitive category of the monstrous, insofar as characters depicted as straddling the divides between such antinomies of the human experience personify the sense of the uncanny underlying the modern, urban civilisation. We pursue herein several aspects of the uncanny found within the labyrinthine conceptual structures in Hesse’s Steppenwolf and Kafka’s Metamorphosis.
