France/Kafka : An author in theory / John T. Hamilton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hamilton, John T., author.

Series:

New directions in German studies

New Directions in German Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural studies.

Translation & interpretation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2023.

System Details:

text file

HTML/PDF

Summary:

While his memory languished under Nazi censorship, Franz Kafka covertly circulated through occupied France and soon emerged as a cultural icon, read by the most influential intellectuals of the time as a prophet of the rampant bureaucracy, totalitarian oppression, and absurdity that branded the twentieth century. In tracing the history of Kafka's reception in postwar France, John T. Hamilton explores how the work of a German-Jewish writer from Prague became a modern classic capable of addressing universal themes of the human condition. Hamilton also considers how Kafka's unique literary corpus came to stimulate reflection in diverse movements, critical approaches, and philosophical schools, from surrealism and existentialism through psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and structuralism to Marxism, deconstruction, and feminism. The story of Kafka's afterlife in Paris thus furnishes a key chapter in the unfolding of French theory, which continues to guide how we read literature and understand its relationship to the world..

Contents:

Abbreviations I. Gradus ad Parnassum The Writer and the Author in Theory · Through a Glass, darkly · From the Louvre to the Louvre · An Improbable Apparition · A Second Life II. Metamorphoses Naturalization Papers · Amid Intimacy and Exoticism · Universal Man · Dreams, Rivers, Snow · Translative Decisions · Bifurcations III. Trials Paratexts · The Adventurer · The Saint · A Certain Plume · Extremism · Non liquet IV. Contingencies Preoccupations · Nothing but Nothing · Seasickness on Land · Phantom War · Homo absurdus · Impossible Hope · Objective Style V. Judgments Upside Down, Right Side Up · Disengagement · Incendiaries · The Child · The Author in Theater VI. Labyrinths Signs of Change · The New New · Rhizomes · Primal Scenes · Derrida's Pharmacy Bibliography Index.

ISBN:

9798765100400

OCLC:

1344378564

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