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Kafka: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Clayton Koelb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441171576
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book Kafka: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Clayton Koelb and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-17 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Kafka is one of the most widely taught, and read, writers in world literature. Readers encountering texts like 'The Metamorphosis' and The Trial for the first time are frequently perplexed by his often intentionally weird writing. Some might say that Kafka's enduring achievement has been to make his readers love being perplexed. As much of Kafka's writing is designed to perplex the reader, this guide helps the reader understand why and how perplexity has been deliberately created by Kafka's text and to realize what the uses of such perplexity might be. The book guides readers through their first encounters with Kafka and introduces the problems involved in reading his texts, the nature of his texts from the key novels and novellas to letters and professional writings, his life as a writer and different approaches to reading Kafka.

Kafka: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Clayton Koelb
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 082649580X
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Kafka: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Clayton Koelb and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Student guide to Franz Kafka, focusing on giving guidance through the difficulties readers can encounter in studying his work.

Modernist Literature: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Peter Childs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441190031
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Book Synopsis Modernist Literature: A Guide for the Perplexed by : Peter Childs

Download or read book Modernist Literature: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Peter Childs and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete introduction to Modernist writers, ideas and movements, this book considers the precursors as well as the legacy of Modernist Literature in a clear, accessible manner.

Heidegger and Music

Author : Casey Rentmeester
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538154145
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Heidegger and Music written by Casey Rentmeester and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-02 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although philosophers have examined and commented on music for centuries, Martin Heidegger, one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, had frustratingly little to say about music—directly, at least. This volume, the first to tackle Heidegger and music, features contributions from philosophers, musicians, educators, and musicologists from many countries throughout the world, aims to utilize Heidegger’s philosophy to shed light on the place of music in different contexts and fields of practice. Heidegger’s thought is applied to a wide range of musical spheres, including improvisation, classical music, electronic music, African music, ancient Chinese music, jazz, rock n’ roll, composition, and musical performance. The volume also features a wide range of philosophical insights on the essence of music, music’s place in society, and the promise of music’s ability to open up new ways of understanding the world with the onset of the technological and digital musical age. Heidegger and Music breaks new philosophical ground by showcasing creative vignettes that not only push Heidegger’s concepts in new directions, but also get us to question the meaning of music in various contexts.

Kafka's Zoopoetics

Author : Naama Harel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472126512
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (721 download)

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Download or read book Kafka's Zoopoetics written by Naama Harel and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonhuman figures are ubiquitous in the work of Franz Kafka, from his early stories down to his very last one. Despite their prominence throughout his oeuvre, Kafka’s animal representations have been considered first and foremost as mere allegories of intrahuman matters. In recent years, the allegorization of Kafka’s animals has been poetically dismissed by Kafka’s commentators and politically rejected by posthumanist scholars. Such critique, however, has yet to inspire either an overarching or an interdiscursive account. This book aims to fill this lacuna. Positing animal stories as a distinct and significant corpus within Kafka’s entire poetics, and closely examining them in dialogue with both literary and posthumanist analysis, Kafka’s Zoopoetics critically revisits animality, interspecies relations, and the very human-animal contradistinction in the writings of Franz Kafka. Kafka’s animals typically stand at the threshold between humanity and animality, fusing together human and nonhuman features. Among his liminal creatures we find a human transformed into vermin (in “The Metamorphosis”), an ape turned into a human being (in “A Report to an Academy”), talking jackals (in “Jackals and Arabs”), a philosophical dog (in “Researches of a Dog”), a contemplative mole-like creature (in “The Burrow”), and indiscernible beings (in “Josefine, the Singer or the Mouse People”). Depicting species boundaries as mutable and obscure, Kafka creates a fluid human-animal space, which can be described as “humanimal.” The constitution of a humanimal space radically undermines the stark barrier between human and other animals, dictated by the anthropocentric paradigm. Through denying animalistic elements in humans, and disavowing the agency of nonhuman animals, excluding them from social life, and neutralizing compassion for them, this barrier has been designed to regularize both humanity and animality. The contextualization of Kafka's animals within posthumanist theory engenders a post-anthropocentric arena, which is simultaneously both imagined and very real.

Understanding Franz Kafka

Author : Allen Thiher
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 1611178290
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Franz Kafka written by Allen Thiher and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analysis of the life of the eccentric author of The Trial, and his quest for meaning in his work. Franz Kafka is without question one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century despite the fact that much of his work remained unpublished when he died at a relatively young age in 1924. Kafka’s eccentric methods of composition and his diffident attitude toward publishing left most of his writing to be edited and published after his death by his literary executor, Max Brod. In Understanding Franz Kafka, Allen Thiher addresses the development of Kafka’s work by analyzing it in terms of its chronological unfolding, emphasizing the various phases in Kafka’s life that can be discerned in his constant quest to find a meaning for his writing. Thiher also shows that Kafka’s work, frequently self-referential, explores the ways literature can have meaning in a world in which writing is a dubious activity. After outlining Kafka’s life using new biographical information, Thiher examines Kafka’s first attempts at writing, often involving nearly farcical experiments. The study then shows how Kafka’s work developed through twists and turns, beginning with the breakthrough stories “The Judgment” and “The Metamorphosis,” continuing with his first attempt at a novel with Amerika, and followed by Kafka’s shifting back and forth between short fiction and two other unpublished novels, The Trial and The Castle. Thiher also calls on Kafka’s notebooks and diaries to help demonstrate that he never stopped experimenting in his attempt to find a literary form that might satisfy his desire to create some kind of transcendental text in an era in which the transcendent is at best an object of nostalgia or of comic derision. In short, Thiher contends, Kafka constantly sought the grounds for writing in a world in which all appears groundless.

Franz Kafka in Context

Author : Carolin Duttlinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107085497
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Franz Kafka in Context written by Carolin Duttlinger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.

Kafka's Ethics of Interpretation

Author : Jennifer L. Geddes
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810132915
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Kafka's Ethics of Interpretation written by Jennifer L. Geddes and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kafka's Ethics of Interpretation refutes the oft-repeated claim, made by Kafka's greatest interpreters, including Walter Benjamin and Harold Bloom, that Kafka sought to evade interpretation of his writings. Jennifer L. Geddes shows that this claim about Kafka's deliberate uninterpretability is not only wrong, it also misconstrues a central concern of his work. Kafka was not trying to avoid or prevent interpretation; rather, his works are centrally concerned with it. Geddes explores the interpretation that takes place within, and in response to, Kafka's writings, and pairs Kafka's works with readings of Sigmund Freud, Pierre Bourdieu, Tzvetan Todorov, Emmanuel Levinas, and others. She argues that Kafka explores interpretation as a mode of power and violence, but also as a mode of engagement with the world and others. Kafka, she argues, challenges us to rethink the ways we read texts, engage others, and navigate the world through our interpretations of them.

Philosophy and Kafka

Author : Brendan Moran
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739180908
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Philosophy and Kafka written by Brendan Moran and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-04-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy and Kafka is a collection of original essays interrogating the relationship of literature and philosophy. The essays either discuss specific philosophical commentaries on Kafka’s work, consider the possible relevance of certain philosophical outlooks for examining Kafka’s writings, or examine Kafka’s writings in terms of a specific philosophical theme, such as communication and subjectivity, language and meaning, knowledge and truth, the human/animal divide, justice, and freedom.

Existentialism: A Guide for the Perplexed

Author : Steven Earnshaw
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441194991
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Book Synopsis Existentialism: A Guide for the Perplexed by : Steven Earnshaw

Download or read book Existentialism: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Steven Earnshaw and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-11-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Existentialism is often studied by students with little or no background in philosophy; either as an introduction to the idea of studying philosophy or as part of a literary course. Although it is often an attractive topic for students interested in thinking about questions of 'self' or 'being', it also requires them to study difficult thinkers and texts. This Guide for the Perplexed begins with the question of 'What is Existentialism?' and then moves on to provide a brief analysis of the key thinkers, writers and texts - both philosophical and literary - central to existentialism. Chapters focus particularly on Kierkegaard, Heidegger, Sartre and Camus but also discuss other philosophers and writers such as Nietzsche, Dostoevsky and Kafka. The second section of the Guide introduces key topics associated with existentialist thought; Self, Consciousness, the question of God and Commitment. Each chapter explains the concepts and debates and provides guidance on reading and analysing the philosophical and literary texts addressed, focusing throughout on clarifying the areas students find most difficult

Kafka's Jewish Languages

Author : David Suchoff
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812205243
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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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.

Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return

Author : Antonio Sanna
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030047989
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Critical Essays on Twin Peaks: The Return written by Antonio Sanna and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection offers an interdisciplinary study of Twin Peaks: The Return, the third season of a TV program that has attracted the attention (and appreciation) of spectators, fans, and critics for over two decades. The book takes readers into several distinct areas and addresses the different approaches and the range of topics invited by the multidimensionality of the subject itself: the philosophical, the artistic, the socio-cultural, and the personal. The eighteen chapters constituting the volume are academic in their approach to the subject and in their methodology, whether they apply a historical, psychoanalytical, film studies, or gender studies perspective to the text under examination. The variety and range of perspectives in these aforementioned chapters reflect the belief that a study of the full complexity of Twin Peaks: The Return, as well as a timely assessment of the critical importance of the program, requires both an interdisciplinary perspective and the fusion of different intellectual approaches across genres. The chapters demonstrate a collective awareness of the TV series as a fundamental milestone in contemporary culture.

Investigating Franz Kafka's “Der Bau”

Author : Andrea Ebarb
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3111058174
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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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 2023-04-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die 1992 gegründete Buchreihe ist interdisziplinär ausgerichtet; sie umfasst wissenschaftliche Monographien, Aufsatzsammlungen und kommentierte Quelleneditionen vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Der Begriff deutsch-jüdische Literatur bzw. Kultur verweist auf Werke jüdischer Autoren in deutscher Sprache, insoweit jüdische Aspekte erkennbar sind. Aber auch das häufig vom Antisemitismus geprägte Judenbild nichtjüdischer Autoren wird zu einem Faktor der literarisch vermittelten deutsch-jüdischen Beziehungsgeschichte. Der Erforschung des gesamten Problemfelds bietet die Reihe ein angemessenes Forum.

andererseits - Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies

Author : William Collins Donahue
Publisher : transcript Verlag
ISBN 13 : 3839434513
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book andererseits - Yearbook of Transatlantic German Studies written by William Collins Donahue and published by transcript Verlag. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: andererseits is a collaborative project undertaken by students and faculties of universities in the USA (Duke and the University of Notre Dame), in Luxembourg (University of Luxembourg), and in Germany (University of Duisburg-Essen). It provides a forum for research and reflection on topics related to the German-speaking world and the field of German Studies. Works presented in the publication come from a wide variety of genres including book reviews, poetry, essays, editorials, forum discussions, academic notes, lectures, as well as traditional peer-reviewed academic articles. By publishing such a diverse array of material, we hope to demonstrate the extraordinary value of the humanities in general, and German Studies in particular, on a variety of intellectual and cultural levels. This edition features special sections on the writers Reinhard Jirgl and Barbara Honigmann as well as - for example - essays on Beethoven's 'Heroic New Path', 'Antisemitism in Germany (1890-1933)', the reception of German literature in Great Britain, and a study of post-Wall East German melodrama.

Animal Fables after Darwin

Author : Chris Danta
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108428207
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Animal Fables after Darwin written by Chris Danta and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-19 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major critical reassessment of the fable and of the literary representation of the human-animal relationship after Darwin.

Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces

Author : Fabio Vighi
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739188364
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces written by Fabio Vighi and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-04-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces: Threshold Experiences uses the term “threshold” as a means to understand the relationship between Self and Other, as well as relationships between different cultures. The concept of “threshold” defines the relationship between inside and outside not in oppositional terms, but as complementaries. This book discusses the cultural and social “border areas” of modernity, which are to be understood not as “zones” in a territorial sense, but as “spaces in between” in which different languages and cultures operate. The essays in Between Urban Topographies and Political Spaces identify the dimension in urban topographies and political spaces where we are able to locate paradigmatic experiences of thresholds. Because these spaces are characterized by contradictions, conflicts, and aporias, we propose to rethink those hermeneutic categories that imply a sharp opposition between inside and outside. This means that the theoretical definition of threshold put forward in these essays—whether applied to history, philosophy, law, art, or cultural studies—embodies new juridical and political stances.

Filipinas Everywhere

Author : E. San Juan Jr.
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1782844066
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Filipinas Everywhere written by E. San Juan Jr. and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this epoch of disastrous neoliberal globalisation, E. San Juan's critique seizes the crisis in neo-colonial Philippines as a point of intervention. As current Philippine President Duterte's timely war on drugs and corruption rages, San Juan foregrounds the facticity that Filipinos are once more confronted with the barbaric legacy of U.S. domination, legitimised today as civilising humanitarianism. This wide-ranging discourse by a Filipino radical scholar interrogates the apologetic use of postcolonial dogmas, Saussurean semiology versus Peircean semiotics, Kafka's allegory on torture, Edward Said's use of Gramsci, and the post-conceptual view of photography. The author also diagnoses the symptoms of nihilistic neoliberal ideology found in media discourses on diaspora, terrorism, and globalisation. His critique of academic postcolonial studies sums up the arguments elaborated in his previous books, Beyond Postcolonial Theory (St Martins Press), After Post-Colonialism (Rowman & Littlefield), and especially US Imperialism and Revolution in the Philippines (Palgrave Macmillan). Overall, San Juan seeks to deploy a historical-materialist perspective in elucidating the dialectical interplay of contradictory forces symbolised in art and diverse cultural texts. In the process, he delineates the contexts of events and encounters generating revolutionary transformations in this transitional Asian-Pacific islands that, with its subjugation in the Filipino-American War of 1899-1913, marked the fateful advent of U.S. imperial hegemony on the planet.