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Author : Heinz Politzer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Franz Kafka; Parable and Paradox written by Heinz Politzer and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An evaluation of the writings of Kafka.
Author : Richard T. Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313061424
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia written by Richard T. Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Known for depicting alienation, frustration, and the victimization of the individual by impenetrable bureaucracies, Kafka's works have given rise to the term Kafkaesque. This encyclopedia details Kafka's life and writings. Included are more than 800 alphabetically arranged entries on his works, characters, family members and acquaintances, themes, and other topics. Most of the entries cite works for further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography.
Author : Clayton Koelb
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745964
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Kafka's Rhetoric written by Clayton Koelb and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-15 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first book to study Franz Kafka from the perspective of modern rhetorical theory, Clayton Koelb explores such questions as how Kafka understood the reading process, how he thematized the problematic of reading, and how his highly distinctive style relates to what Koelb describes as the "passion of reading."
Author : Stanley Corngold
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501722816
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Franz Kafka written by Stanley Corngold and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Stanley Corngold’s view, the themes and strategies of Kafka’s fiction are generated by a tension between his concern for writing and his growing sense of its arbitrary character. Analyzing Kafka’s work in light of "the necessity of form," which is also a merely formal necessity, Corngold uncovers the fundamental paradox of Kafka’s art and life. The first section of the book shows how Kafka’s rhetoric may be understood as the daring project of a man compelled to live his life as literature. In the central part of the book, Corngold reflects on the place of Kafka within the modern tradition, discussing such influential precursors of Cervantes, Flaubert, and Nietzsche, whose works display a comparable narrative disruption. Kafka’s distinctive narrative strategies, Corngold points out, demand interpretation at the same time they resist it. Critics of Kafka, he says, must be aware that their approaches are guided by the principles that Kafka’s fiction identifies, dramatizes, and rejects.
Author : Gila Safran Naveh
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 143841434X
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Biblical Parables and Their Modern Re-creations written by Gila Safran Naveh and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Biblical Parables and Their Modern Re-creations, Gila Safran Naveh carefully charts the historical transformation of these deceptively simple narratives to reveal fundamental shifts in their form, function, and most significantly, their readers' cognitive processes. Bringing together for the first time parables from the Scriptures, the synoptic Gospels, Chassidic tales, and medieval philosophy with the mashal, the rabbinic parables commonly used to interpret Scripture, this book brilliantly contrasts the rhetorical strategies of ancient parables with more recent examples of the genre by Kafka, Borges, Calvino, and Agnon. By using an interdisciplinary approach and insights from current semiotic, linguistic, psychoanalytic, and gender theories, Naveh reveals a dramatic social, cultural, and political shift in the way we view the divine.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1604134461
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)
Download or read book Sin and Redemption written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The allied themes of sin and redemption are at the heart of many classics of religious literature, and even secular writers feel compelled to explore the role of sin and redemption in such works as King Lear, Moby-Dick, Paradise Lost, The Portrait of a Lady, The Waste Land, and many more works.. Featuring original essays and excerpts from previously published critical analyses, this addition to the Bloom's Literary Themes series gives students valuable insight into the title's subject theme.
Author : George H. Szanto
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477303219
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Narrative Consciousness written by George H. Szanto and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comparatively little critical attention has been devoted to narrative technique in modern fiction, and formal analysis of the work of Kafka, Beckett, and Robbe-Grillet in particular has for the most part been limited to short studies in journals, many of these in languages other than English. The criticism written in English has dealt primarily with theme with metaphysics and myth and ignored structure and style. Yet it is structure and style that offer the reader a way into the often bewildering and disturbing fictional worlds these three writers present. The problem confronting writers since the middle of the nineteenth century has been how to cope artistically with an increasingly alienating and mechanized world. As George Szanto sees it, Kafka, Beckett and Robbe-Grillet conclude, by the example of their fictions, that the writer's province is no longer this impossible environment. Instead, the writer must work within the only knowledge available to any one person: the knowledge attained through perceptions. The proper study for a storyteller is thus the search for the unique details, the describable perceptions a person chooses from the outside world and brings into their mind, which in the end define their nature. The shape of the story is determined by the narrating consciousness, that single character through whose awareness the details are filtered. Thus, in a very special sense, the tale and the telling are one. Szanto's meticulous and thoughtful study of the major fiction of Kafka, Beckett, and Robbe-Grillet searches out these details and examines the manner in which each author, through the minds of his characters, has selected and ordered them. His structural approach not only leads the reader directly into the works under scrutiny, but also provides an understanding of the workings of the art itself. In the appendices, the author surveys the different ways in which criticism has treated these three writers. His extensive bibliography provides a valuable research tool.
Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Schocken
ISBN 13 : 0805211616
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Amerika: The Missing Person written by Franz Kafka and published by Schocken. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kafka began writing what he had entitled Der Verschollene (The Missing Person) in 1912 and wrote the last completed chapter in 1914. But it wasn’t until 1927, three years after his death, that Max Brod, Kafka’s friend and literary executor, edited the unfinished manuscript and published it as Amerika. Kafka’s first and funniest novel, Amerika tells the story of the young Karl Rossmann who, after an incident involving a housemaid, is banished by his parents to America. Expected to redeem himself in this magical land of opportunity, young Karl is swept up instead in a whirlwind of dizzying reversals, strange escapades, and picaresque adventures.
Author : Andrea Ebarb
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111058220
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Investigating Franz Kafka's “Der Bau” written by Andrea Ebarb and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2016, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Max Brod’s posthumous papers which included a collection of Kafka’s manuscripts be transferred to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. If Kafka’s writings may be seen to belong to Jewish national culture and if they may be considered part of Israel’s heritage, then their analysis within a Jewish framework should be both viable and valuable. This volume is dedicated to the research of Franz Kafka’s late narrative “The Burrow” and its autobiographical and theological significance. Research is extended to incorporate many fields of study (architecture, sound studies, philosophy, cultural studies, Jewish studies, literary studies) to illustrate the dynamics at work within the text which reveal the Jewish aspects implicitly thematicized. Examination of the structure created, the nature of sound perceived, the atmosphere experienced and the acts performed by the protagonist serve as the foundation of this analysis and offer new access to Kafka’s work by presenting an interpretive, space-semantic approach. “Der Bau” is presented as a life concept given the task of constituting identity, highlighting the critical link between the literary and biographical Kafka and demonstrating the necessity of understanding the author as a Jewish writer to understand his late narrative. For her outstanding research project, Andrea Newsom Ebarb was awarded the “Forschungsförderpreis der Vereinigung der Freunde der Universität Mainz e.V.” in 2023.
Author : Forrest L. Ingram
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110888548
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Representative Short Story Cycles of the Twentieth Century written by Forrest L. Ingram and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2012-05-02 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Suchoff
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205243
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Kafka's Jewish Languages written by David Suchoff and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-11-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Franz Kafka died in 1924, his novels and short stories were published in ways that downplayed both their author's roots in Prague and his engagement with Jewish tradition and language, so as to secure their place in the German literary canon. Now, nearly a century after Kafka began to create his fictions, Germany, Israel, and the Czech Republic lay claim to his legacy. Kafka's Jewish Languages brings Kafka's stature as a specifically Jewish writer into focus. David Suchoff explores the Yiddish and modern Hebrew that inspired Kafka's vision of tradition. Citing the Jewish sources crucial to the development of Kafka's style, the book demonstrates the intimate relationship between the author's Jewish modes of expression and the larger literary significance of his works. Suchoff shows how "The Judgment" evokes Yiddish as a language of comic curse and examines how Yiddish, African American, and culturally Zionist voices appear in the unfinished novel, Amerika. In his reading of The Trial, Suchoff highlights the black humor Kafka learned from the Yiddish theater, and he interprets The Castle in light of Kafka's involvement with the renewal of the Hebrew language. Finally, he uncovers the Yiddish and Hebrew meanings behind Kafka's "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse-Folk" and considers the recent legal case in Tel Aviv over the possession of Kafka's missing manuscripts as a parable of the transnational meanings of his writing.
Author : Espen Hammer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190461470
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Kafka's The Trial written by Espen Hammer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kafka's novel The Trial, written from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925, is a multi-faceted, notoriously difficult manifestation of European literary modernism, and one of the most emblematic books of the 20th Century. It tells the story of Josef K., a man accused of a crime he has no recollection of committing and whose nature is never revealed to him. The novel is often interpreted theologically as an expression of radical nihilism and a world abandoned by God. It is also read as a parable of the cold, inhumane rationality of modern bureaucratization. Like many other novels of this turbulent period, it offers a tragic quest-narrative in which the hero searches for truth and clarity (whether about himself, or the anonymous system he is facing), only to fall into greater and greater confusion. This collection of nine new essays and an editor's introduction brings together Kafka experts, intellectual historians, literary scholars, and philosophers in order to explore the novel's philosophical and theological significance. Authors pursue the novel's central concerns of justice, law, resistance, ethics, alienation, and subjectivity. Few novels display human uncertainty and skepticism in the face of rapid modernization, or the metaphysical as it intersects with the most mundane aspects of everyday life, more insistently than The Trial. Ultimately, the essays in this collection focus on how Kafka's text is in fact philosophical in the ways in which it achieves its literary aims. Rather than considering ideas as externally related to the text, the text is considered philosophical at the very level of literary form and technique.
Author : Arthur Cools
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110457431
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)
Download or read book Kafka and the Universal written by Arthur Cools and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2016-07-25 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kafka’s work has been attributed a universal significance and is often regarded as the ultimate witness of the human condition in the twentieth century. Yet his work is also considered paradigmatic for the expression of the singular that cannot be subsumed under any generalization. This paradox engenders questions not only concerning the meaning of the universal as it manifests itself in (and is transformed by) Kafka’s writings but also about the expression of the singular in literary fiction as it challenges the opposition between the universal and the singular. The contributions in this volume approach these questions from a variety of perspectives. They are structured according to the following issues: ambiguity as a tool of deconstructing the pre-established philosophical meanings of the universal; the concept of the law as a major symbol for the universal meaning of Kafka’s writings; the presence of animals in Kafka’s texts; the modernist mode of writing as challenge of philosophical concepts of the universal; and the meaning and relevance of the universal in contemporary Kafka reception. This volume examines central aspects of the interplay between philosophy and literature.
Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199238294
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)
Download or read book The Trial written by Franz Kafka and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2009-07-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trial is one of the central works of modern literature. This meticulous new translation includes the chapters Kafka left incomplete and is accompanied by a biographical preface, detailed introduction, chronology, bibliography and notes.
Author : Jill Robbins
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226721101
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (211 download)
Download or read book Prodigal Son/Elder Brother written by Jill Robbins and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-07-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I don't know of any other book that deals with the hermeneutical problem of the relationship between Christianity and Judaism in the way this one does. Full of cunning and unpredictable turns, Prodigal Son/Elder Brother addresses the question of the elder brother's fate by opposing two sets of readings, Christian and Jewish, ancient and modern, figural and midrashic. No one, after reading this book, will any longer connect Judaism and Christianity with a hyphen."—Gerald L. Burns, University of Notre Dame "Through a creative reading of the prodigal son parable, Jill Robbins demonstrates the hermeneutical impasse of the Christian exegete who must and yet cannot incorporate the Old Testament. Having disclosed the aporia at the heart of Christian hermeneutics, she proposes an alternative approach to the Hebrew Bible and new interpretations of Augustine, Petrarch, Kafka, and Levinas. Robbins brilliantly integrates the discourses of biblical texts, literary works, and critical analysis."—Mark C. Taylor, Williams College
Author : James Whitlark
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838634271
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (342 download)
Download or read book Behind the Great Wall written by James Whitlark and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores what lies behind the fantastic barrier in a borderland that C. G. Jung called the unconscious, the avant-garde writer Kafka termed incomprehensive, and Whitlark argues is an entire spectrum of muted awareness.
Author : Carolin Duttlinger
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191527483
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Kafka and Photography written by Carolin Duttlinger and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-12-06 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout his life, Franz Kafka was fascinated by photography, a medium which for him came to encapsulate both the attractions and the pitfalls of modern life. Kafka's personal engagement with the medium - as a keen viewer and collector of photographs as well as an amateur photographer - is reflected in his writings, which explore photography from a variety of different perspectives. By far the most frequently and extensively discussed visual medium in Kafka's texts, photography is paradigmatic of his relationship to visuality more generally. This study not only explores photography's recurrence as a theme within his texts but it is also the first to take systematic account of Kafka's use of photographs as literary source material. Kafka and Photography presents one of the most important modern writers from an entirely new perspective; it sheds new light on familiar works and uncovers unexplored aspects of Kafka's engagement with his time and context. Providing a chronological account of key prose works, as well as the personal writings, this study is accessible to students and lay readers. It will be of interest not only to literary scholars but also to those working in photography, media, and cultural studies. Its detailed textual analyses are set against a richly documented historical context which illustrates Kafka's interest in contemporary culture through a range of visual material taken from public as well as private sources - some of which has only recently become available. As this book demonstrates, photography had a profound impact on Kafka's literary imagination and as such helps to explain the mesmerizing intensity of enigmatic visual detail which is a hallmark of his narratives.
