Kafka's Rhetoric : The Passion of Reading / Clayton Koelb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Koelb, Clayton, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Technique.

Kafka, Franz.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 263 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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."

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface / Koelb, Clayton

Abbreviations

1. Rhetoric, Reading, and Writing

2. The Rhetorical "Kafka"

3. Acts of Rhetoric

4. Two Readings of Reading

5. The Rhetoric of Realism

6. Reading the Classics

7. The Rhetoric of Parable

8. The Clothed Body

9. Lived Rhetoric

10. The Passion of Reading

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [251]-256) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-4596-4

OCLC:

1125112948