Expeditions to Kafka : Selected Essays / Stanley Corngold.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corngold, Stanley, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.

Kafka, Franz.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2023.

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

System Details:

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Summary:

In this new volume of Kafka studies, which is addressed to both beginning readers of Kafka as well as Kafka scholars, Stanley Corngold discusses Kafka's work in a variety of novel perspectives, including Goethe's The Sufferings of Young Werther; Nietzsche's conception of aphoristic form; bureaucratic organization; accident and risk; the logic of possession and inheritance; and myth, among others. Even as Corngold explores Kafka's work across different fields and tangents, he does so in vivid, readable prose, free of jargon, and with an eye to Kafka's ongoing relevance to the concerns of his day and ours. Taken together these linked essays reveal Kafka in his astonishing many-sidedness.

Contents:

Preface Abbreviations for Works Cited Introduction: Franz Kafka

A Conspectus in Dialogue PART I: INDIVIDUAL WORKS Chapter 1 Caveat: A Personal Overture to The Metamorphosis Chapter 2 Kafka's Hermeneutics Chapter 3 The Metamorphosis, Goethe's Werther, and the Bible Chapter 4 Kafka, The Radical Modernist Chapter 5 Ritardando in The Castle PART II: KAFKA GENERALLY Chapter 6 Kafka, Connoisseur of Mythical Thinking Chapter 7 Special Views on Kafka's Cages Chapter 8 The Singular Accident in a Universe of Risk Chapter 9 Kafka on Property and its Relations PART III: KAFKA IN DIALOGUE WITH COLLOQUISTS Chapter 10 Aphoristic Form in Nietzsche and Kafka Chapter 11 Gershom Scholem's Gnostically-Minded View of Kafka Chapter 12 Kafka's "A Report to An Academy" with Adorno PART IV: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES Chapter 13 Kafka and Dominant Critical Approaches Acknowledgments About the Author Index

ISBN:

9798765100455

OCLC:

1369486487

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