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Flaubert and Kafka

Charles Bernheimer
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Author : Charles Bernheimer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300026331

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Flaubert and Kafka by Charles Bernheimer Pdf

Although their styles appear remarkably different, Flaubert and Kafka share a common identification with the writing process itself. "I am a human pen," wrote Flaubert; "I am nothing but literature," declared Kafka. This stimulating book is the first to explore the link between these writers. Introducing his conception of psychopoetics, Charles Bernheimer brings new clarity to many controversial issues in psychoanalysis, rhetoric, and critical theory. In chapters on Flaubert and Kafka he probes the desires and fears motivating each writer's search for a fully satisfying literary style. His interpretation of the strategies the authors adopt to harness the negativity of writing reveals the creative function of such psychological phenomena as narcissism, fetishism, and sadomasochism. The major works, Bernheimer argues, dramatize the conflict between the structures of Eros and Thanatos, metonymy and metaphor, through which they are constituted. From this illuminating perspective he traces the genesis of each writer's mature style, analyzes two early works, La Tentation de saint Antoine and "The Judgment," and examines two late masterpieces, Bouvard et Pécuchet and The Castle, applying to the latter Walter Benjamin's description of the allegorical mode. This highly original work of theoretical criticism will interest not only readers of Flaubert and Kafka but all students of literary theory and the creative process.

Franz Kafka

Stanley Corngold
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Author : Stanley Corngold
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501722813

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Franz Kafka by Stanley Corngold Pdf

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.

Franz Kafka (1883-1983)

Roman Struc,John Yardley
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Author : Roman Struc,John Yardley
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-10-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781554587995

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Franz Kafka (1883-1983) by Roman Struc,John Yardley Pdf

The eight papers in this volume were originally presented at the centennial conference on Franz Kafka held at the University of Calgary in October 1983. As diverse in approach and methodology as these papers are “the general drift of the volume is away from Germanistik towards ‘state-of-the-art’ methods.” The opening articles by Charles Bernheimer and James Rolleston both deal with the similarities and contrasts between Kafka and Flaubert, with Bernheimer focusing on the “I” and the dilemma of narration in Kafka’s early story, “Wedding Preparation in the Country,” and Rolleston on the time-dimensions in the Kafka’s work that link him to the Romantics. Other articles in the volume deal with the complex interrelationships between author and narrator, and implied author and implied reader; with Kafka’s place in the European fable tradition and in classic and Romantic religious traditions; with Kafka’s diaries; and with his female protagonists.

Franz Kafka in Context

Carolin Duttlinger
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Author : Carolin Duttlinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107085497

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Franz Kafka in Context by Carolin Duttlinger Pdf

Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.

A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia

Richard T. Gray,Ruth V. Gross,Rolf J. Goebel,Clayton Koelb
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Author : Richard T. Gray,Ruth V. Gross,Rolf J. Goebel,Clayton Koelb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313061424

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A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia by Richard T. Gray,Ruth V. Gross,Rolf J. Goebel,Clayton Koelb Pdf

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.

A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia

Laurence M. Porter
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Author : Laurence M. Porter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313016516

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A Gustave Flaubert Encyclopedia by Laurence M. Porter Pdf

Gustave Flaubert is probably the most famous novelist of nineteenth-century France, and his best known work, Madame Bovary, is read in numerous comparative literature and French courses. His fiction set the standard to which other authors turned to learn their craft, and his cult of art and his unrelenting search for stylistic perfection inspired many later writers, such as Maupassant, Proust, Conrad, Faulkner, and Joyce. His denunciation of materialistic, corrupt society; his fascination with altered states of consciousness; his oscillation between metaphysical longings and a radical nihilism; and his deep-seated mistrust of the adequacy of words themselves anticipate the works of contemporary authors. This reference is a convenient guide to his life and writings. Included in this volume are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries on Flaubert's individual works and major characters; historical persons and events that shaped his life; the themes that run throughout his writings; the critical approaches employed by scholars studying his works; and related topics of interest. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and most close with a brief bibliography. All of his major works are treated at length, and the volume mentions nearly every unpublished project of his that has a title. The book concludes with a selected, general bibliography of major studies.

Kafka

René Marill-Albérès,Pierre de Boisdeffre
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Author : René Marill-Albérès,Pierre de Boisdeffre
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781497675957

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Kafka by René Marill-Albérès,Pierre de Boisdeffre Pdf

This is a study of Kafka’s tragic vision of life, his profoundly disturbing awareness of man’s utter loneliness in a pitiless universe, and his artistry in effecting a strange intimate fusion between symbolism and realism—between anguished poetic narration and the terrifying reality of an absurd and ambiguous environment. The book discusses the historical setting, the literary currents, and the personal details affecting the development of Kafka’s genius: his isolation in a labyrinthine universe; his sufferings, sickness and death; his influence and survival through his art. The central idea of the book is summed up in a quotation from Jean-Paul Sartre: “I have nothing to say about Kafka except that he is one of the rarest and greatest writers of our time.” The authors are specialists in contemporary literature. Translated from the French by Wade Baskin.

Kafka's Travels

J. Zilcosky
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Author : J. Zilcosky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137076373

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Kafka's Travels by J. Zilcosky Pdf

In 1916, Kafka writes of The Sugar Baron , a dime-store colonial adventure novel, '[it] affects me so deeply that I feel it is about myself, or as if it were the book of rules for my life.' John Zilcosky reveals that this perhaps surprising statement - made by the Prague-bound poet of modern isolation - is part of a network of remarks that exemplify Kafka's ongoing preoccupation with popular travel writing, exoticism, and colonial fantasy. Taking this biographical peculiarity as a starting point, Kafka's Travels elegantly re-reads Kafka's major works ( Amerika , The Trial , The Castle ) through the lens of fin-de siecle travel culture. Making use of previously unexplored literary and cultural materials - travel diaries, train schedules, tour guides, adventure novels - Zilcosky argues that Kafka's uniquely modern metaphorics of alienation emerges out of the author's complex encounter with the utopian travel discourses of his day.

Kafka

Kaj Bernhard Genell
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Author : Kaj Bernhard Genell
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789180075626

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Kafka by Kaj Bernhard Genell Pdf

"Kafka - a Fredo-Structuralist Analysis" is an analysis of Kafka's Novels and short Stories. This book concentrates on understanding what contributed to the famous Kafka effect. The author explains the structural triplicity of a discourse seen as Consciousness. It also describes how Freud, Romantic irony, and Symbolistic literature simultaneously co-work as the mythical subtext of Kafka's work. Kafka created something that would become part of defining Modern Man. Understanding Kafka is the road to understanding Modernity.

Kafka

Reiner Stach
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Author : Reiner Stach
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691178189

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Kafka by Reiner Stach Pdf

The eagerly anticipated final volume of the award-winning, definitive biography of Franz Kafka How did Kafka become Kafka? This eagerly anticipated third and final volume of Reiner Stach's definitive biography of the writer answers that question with more facts and insight than ever before, describing the complex personal, political, and cultural circumstances that shaped the young Franz Kafka (1883–1924). It tells the story of the years from his birth in Prague to the beginning of his professional and literary career in 1910, taking the reader up to just before the breakthrough that resulted in his first masterpieces, including "The Metamorphosis." Brimming with vivid and often startling details, Stach’s narrative invites readers deep inside this neglected period of Kafka’s life. The book’s richly atmospheric portrait of his German Jewish merchant family and his education, psychological development, and sexual maturation draws on numerous sources, some still unpublished, including family letters, schoolmates’ memoirs, and early diaries of his close friend Max Brod. The biography also provides a colorful panorama of Kafka’s wider world, especially the convoluted politics and culture of Prague. Before World War I, Kafka lived in a society at the threshold of modernity but torn by conflict, and Stach provides poignant details of how the adolescent Kafka witnessed violent outbreaks of anti-Semitism and nationalism. The reader also learns how he developed a passionate interest in new technologies, particularly movies and airplanes, and why another interest—his predilection for the back-to-nature movement—stemmed from his “nervous” surroundings rather than personal eccentricity. The crowning volume to a masterly biography, this is an unmatched account of how a boy who grew up in an old Central European monarchy became a writer who helped create modern literature.

Modernism and the Critical Spirit

Eugene Goodheart
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Author : Eugene Goodheart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351309103

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Modernism and the Critical Spirit by Eugene Goodheart Pdf

Complaints about the decline of critical standards in literature and culture in general have been voiced for much of the twentieth century. These have extended from F.R. Leavis's laments for a "lost center of intelligence and urbane spirit," to current opposition to the predominance of radical critical theory in contemporary literature departments. Humanist criticism, which has as its object the quality of life as well as works of art, may well lack authority in the contemporary world. Even amid the disruptions of the industrial revolution, nineteenth-century humanists such as Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, and Thomas Carlyle could assume a positive order of value and shared habits of imaginative perception and understanding between writers and readers. Eugene Goodheart argues that, by contrast, contemporary criticism is infused with the skepticism of modernist aesthetics. It has willfully rejected the very idea of moral authority.Goodheart starts from the premise that questions about the moral authority of literature and criticism often turn upon a prior question of what happens when the sacred disappears or is subjected to the profane. He focuses on contending spiritual views, in particular the dialectic between the Protestant-inspired, largely English humanist tradition of Carlyle, Ruskin, Arnold, and D.H. Lawrence and the decay of Catholicism represented by James Joyce and T.S. Eliot. Goodheart argues that literary modernism, in distancing itself from natural and social vitality, tends to render suspect all privileged positions. It thereby undermines the critical act, which assumes the priority of a particular set of values. Goodheart makes his case by analyzing the work of a variety of novelists, poets, and critics, nineteenth century and contemporary. He blends literary theory and practical criticism.

Kafka’s Cognitive Realism

Emily Troscianko
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Author : Emily Troscianko
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-03
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781136180057

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Kafka’s Cognitive Realism by Emily Troscianko Pdf

This book uses insights from the cognitive sciences to illuminate Kafka’s poetics, exemplifying a paradigm for literary studies in which cognitive-scientific insights are brought to bear directly on literary texts. The volume shows that the concept of "cognitive realism" can be a critically productive framework for exploring how textual evocations of cognition correspond to or diverge from cognitive realities, and how this may affect real readers. In particular, it argues that Kafka’s evocations of visual perception (including narrative perspective) and emotion can be understood as fundamentally enactive, and that in this sense they are "cognitively realistic". These cognitively realistic qualities are likely to establish a compellingly direct connection with the reader’s imagination, but because they contradict folk-psychological assumptions about how our minds work, they may also leave the reader unsettled. This is the first time a fully interdisciplinary research paradigm has been used to explore a single author’s fictional works in depth, opening up avenues for future research in cognitive literary science.

The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka

Carolin Duttlinger
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Author : Carolin Duttlinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107244207

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The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka by Carolin Duttlinger Pdf

Franz Kafka (1883–1924) is one of the most influential of modern authors, whose darkly fascinating novels and stories - where themes such as power, punishment and alienation loom large - have become emblematic of modern life. This Introduction offers a clear and accessible account of Kafka's life, work and literary influence and overturns many myths surrounding them. His texts are in fact far more engaging, diverse, light-hearted and ironic than is commonly suggested by clichés of 'the Kafkaesque'. And, once explored in detail, they are less difficult and impenetrable than is often assumed. Through close analysis of their style, imagery and narrative perspective, Carolin Duttlinger aims to give readers the confidence to (re-)discover Kafka's works without constant recourse to the mantras of critical orthodoxy. In addition, she situates Kafka's texts within their wider cultural, historical and political contexts illustrating how they respond to the concerns of their age, and of our own.

Animal Acts

Jennifer Ham,Matthew Senior
Animal Acts Book PDF

Author : Jennifer Ham,Matthew Senior
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136669118

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Animal Acts by Jennifer Ham,Matthew Senior Pdf

Animal Acts records the history of the fluctuating boundary between animals and humans as expressed in literary, philosophical and scientific texts, as well as visual arts and historical practices such as dissection, circus acts, the hunt and zoos. The essays document a persistent return of animality, a becoming animal that has always existed within and at the margins of Western Culture from the Middle Ages to the present.

A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka

James Rolleston
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Author : James Rolleston
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571133364

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A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka by James Rolleston Pdf

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.