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Kafka's Narrative Theater

Author : James Rolleston
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271072830
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Kafka's Narrative Theater written by James Rolleston and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1990-09-24 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can one speak of Kafka's heroes as "characters"? If so, why is it so hard to define their characteristics? If not, how is the reader persuaded to accompany them on their existential journeys, accepting their behavior as falling within the realm of human logic? This study argues that Kafka's fiction has two conflicting premises: the subjective impossibility of human existence, foreclosing all hope of "meaning" in individual actions; and the ordered structure of human thoughts which assign meaning to the smallest event and analyze endlessly the behavior of other people. Kafka's characters are always, either potentially or actually, moving in both directions at once, earnestly building up a continuous logic to their actions while skeptically dismantling their own pretensions to existence. The device of the circumscribed narrator, congruent with the hero, knowing only what the hero knows, yet not identical with him, enables Kafka to contain both fundamental tendencies in a single sentence. Although Kafka is widely read, his works seem to give rise very easily to misconceptions; this study is designed primarily to facilitate an intelligent reading of Kafka. Without imposing answers of its own, it seeks to foster an awareness of the problems of perspective and presentation which Kafka engages.

Kafka's Narrative Theater

Author : James Rolleston
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271072814
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Kafka's Narrative Theater written by James Rolleston and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 1990-09-24 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can one speak of Kafka's heroes as "characters"? If so, why is it so hard to define their characteristics? If not, how is the reader persuaded to accompany them on their existential journeys, accepting their behavior as falling within the realm of human logic? This study argues that Kafka's fiction has two conflicting premises: the subjective impossibility of human existence, foreclosing all hope of "meaning" in individual actions; and the ordered structure of human thoughts which assign meaning to the smallest event and analyze endlessly the behavior of other people. Kafka's characters are always, either potentially or actually, moving in both directions at once, earnestly building up a continuous logic to their actions while skeptically dismantling their own pretensions to existence. The device of the circumscribed narrator, congruent with the hero, knowing only what the hero knows, yet not identical with him, enables Kafka to contain both fundamental tendencies in a single sentence. Although Kafka is widely read, his works seem to give rise very easily to misconceptions; this study is designed primarily to facilitate an intelligent reading of Kafka. Without imposing answers of its own, it seeks to foster an awareness of the problems of perspective and presentation which Kafka engages.

Kafka and the Yiddish Theater

Author : Evelyn Torton Beck
Publisher : Madison : University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Kafka and the Yiddish Theater written by Evelyn Torton Beck and published by Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka

Author : James Rolleston
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781571133366
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka written by James Rolleston and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2006 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kafka's novels and stories fascinate readers and critics of each generation. Although all theories attempt to appropriate Kafka, there is no one key to his work. This work aims to present a point of view while taking account of previous Kafka research.

Franz Kafka's The Trial

Author : Paul M. Malone
Publisher : Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Franz Kafka's The Trial written by Paul M. Malone and published by Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang. This book was released on 2003 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The low critical opinion of dramatic adaptations of prose works makes clear that the dramatic text is widely seen as unable to compete with the narrative text that it adapts. Privileging the text of a play as the site of meaning is inadequate, however, given the social nature of theatre; rather, the socio-historical context of a production must be investigated to flesh out the meaning of the text in dramatic production. In this study, four theatrical adaptations of Franz Kafka's novel The Trial (1925) from different decades and countries, and in three different languages, illustrate a history not only of Kafka reception, but also of society, politics and theatrical practice in western Europe and Canada. The diversity of these visions of Kafka's work pleads for the acceptance of dramatic adaptation as a creative form of interpretation, rather than as an ill-advised misappropriation, of its source."

Kafka and the Yiddish Theater

Author : Evelyn Torton Beck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Kafka and the Yiddish Theater written by Evelyn Torton Beck and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kafka's Creatures

Author : Marc Lucht
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739143964
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book Kafka's Creatures written by Marc Lucht and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-06-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kafka's Creatures: Animals, Hybrids, and Other Fantastic Beings is an interdisciplinary collection of essays on Franz Kafka's use of non-human creatures in his writings. It is written from a variety of interpretive perspectives and highlights diverse ways of understanding how Kafka's use of these creatures illuminate his work in general.

A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia

Author : Richard T. Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313061424
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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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.

Kafka's Rhetoric

Author : Clayton Koelb
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501745964
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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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."

Kafka's Zoopoetics

Author : Naama Harel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472902091
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 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 2020-05-04 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.

The Play within the Play

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9401204845
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book The Play within the Play written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thirty chapters of this innovative international study are all devoted to the topic of the play within the play. The authors explore the wide range of aesthetic, literary-theoretical and philosophical issues associated with this rhetorical device, not only in terms of its original meta-theatrical setting – from the baroque idea of a theatrum mundi onward to contemporary examples of postmodern self-referential dramaturgy – but also with regard to a variety of different generic applications, e.g. in narrative fiction, musical theatre and film. The authors, internationally recognized specialists in their respective fields, draw on recent debates in such areas as postcolonial studies, game and systems theories, media and performance studies, to analyze the specific qualities and characteristics of the play within the play: as ultimate affirmation of the ‘self’ (the ‘Hamlet paradigm’), as a self-reflective agency of meta-theatrical discourse, and as a vehicle of intermedial and intercultural transformation. The challenging study, with its underlying premise of play as a key feature of cultural anthropology and human creativity, breaks new ground by placing the play within the play at the centre of a number of intersecting scholarly discourses on areas of topical concern to scholars in the humanities.

Transforming Kafka

Author : Patrick O'Neill
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442623802
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Kafka written by Patrick O'Neill and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2014-11-21 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lyrical, mysterious, and laden with symbolism, Franz Kafka’s novels and stories have been translated into more than forty languages ranging from Icelandic to Japanese. In Transforming Kafka, Patrick O’Neill approaches these texts through the method he pioneered in Polyglot Joyce and Impossible Joyce, considering the many translations of each work as a single, multilingual “macrotext.” Examining three novels – The Trial, The Castle, and America – and two short stories – “The Judgment” and “The Metamorphosis” – O’Neill offers comparative readings that consider both intertextual and intratextual themes. His innovative approach shows how comparing translations extends and expands the potential meanings of the text and reveals the subtle differences among the hundreds of translations of Kafka’s work. A sophisticated analysis of the ways in which translation shapes, rearranges, and expands our understanding of literary works, Transforming Kafka is a unique approach to reading the works of a literary giant.

Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis

Author : Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438114028
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis written by Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of critical essays about Kafka's The metamorphosis.

Franz Kafka

Author : Neil Heins
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438115245
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Franz Kafka written by Neil Heins and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a biography of Franz Kafka along with critical views of his work.

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.

The Cambridge Companion to Kafka

Author : Julian Preece
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139826158
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Kafka written by Julian Preece and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-21 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franz Kafka's writing has had a wide-reaching influence on European literature, culture and thought. The Cambridge Companion to Kafka, offers a comprehensive account of his life and work, providing a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe's most distinctive Modernist. Contributions cover all the key texts, and discuss Kafka's writing in a variety of critical contexts such as feminism, deconstruction, psycho-analysis, Marxism, Jewish studies. Other chapters discuss his impact on popular culture and film. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading, and will be of interest to students of German, European and Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies.

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.