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The Myth of Power and the Self
The Myth of Power and the Self brings together Walter Sokel's most significant essays on Kafka written over a period of thirty-one years, 1966-1997. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) has come to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. The Myth of Power and the Self brings together Walter Sokel's most significant essays on Kafka written over a period of thirty-one years, 1966-1997. This volume begins with a discussion of Sokel's 1966 pamphlet on Kafka and a summary of his 1964 book, Tragik und Ironie (Tragedy and Irony), which has never been translated into English, and includes several essays published in English for the first time. Sokel places Kafka's writings in a very large cultural context by fusing Freudian and Expressionist perspectives and incorporating more theoretical approaches--linguistic theory, Gnosticism, and aspects of Derrida--into his synthesis. This superb collection of essays by one of the most qualified Kafka scholars today will bring new understanding to Kafka's work and will be of interest to literary critics, intellectual historians, and students and scholars of German literature and Kafka.
The Naked Truth
Uncovers the interplay of the physical and the aesthetic that shaped Viennese modernism and offers a new interpretation of this moment in the history of the West. Viennese modernism is often described in terms of a fin-de-siècle fascination with the psyche. But this stereotype of the movement as essentially cerebral overlooks a rich cultural history of the body. The Naked Truth, an interdisciplinary tour de force, addresses this lacuna, fundamentally recasting the visual, literary, and performative cultures of Viennese modernism through an innovative focus on the corporeal. Alys X. George explores the modernist focus on the flesh by turning our attention to the second Vienna medical school,...
Going beyond the Pairs
In Going beyond the Pairs, Dennis McCort examines the theme of the coincidentia oppositorum—the tendency of a thing or relationship to turn, under certain conditions, into its own opposite—as it is expressed in German Romanticism, Zen Buddhism, and deconstruction. McCort argues that the coincidentia can be useful for understanding and comparing a variety of cultural forms, including systems of myth, religions ancient and modern, laws of social organization, speculative philosophies East and West, psychological theories and therapeutic practices, and dynamic organizing principles of music, art, and literature. The book touches on a variety of Western and Eastern writers and thinkers, including Thomas Merton, Jacques Derrida, Nishida Kitaro, Rainer Maria Rilke, Franklin Merrell-Wolff, Franz Kafka, Novalis, Renzai Zen, J. D. Salinger, and the mysterious, doughnut-loving editor of the medieval Chinese koan collection, Mumonkan.
Mit dem Bleistift in der Hand
Janko Ferks neuer Band "Mit dem Bleistift in der Hand" enthält eine aktuelle Auswahl aus seinen vielbeachteten literaturkritischen Arbeiten. Das besprochene Spektrum deutschsprachiger Literatur reicht von Bernhard über Handke bis Kafka und Schlink. Der "Bleistift" schließt an "Die Kunst des Urteils" und die "Luft aus der Handtasche" an, womit gleichsam eine Rezensionstrilogie vorliegt.
Transforming Kafka
Patrick O'Neill approaches five of Kafka's novels and short stories by considering the many translations of each work as a single, multilingual “macrotext.”
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Franz Kafka. Internationale Bibliographie der Primär- und Sekundärliteratur / International Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Literature. Band 1+2
Die vorliegende Bibliographie ist als erste ausschließlich Kafkas Werken und deren Übersetzungen gewidmet. Sie wurde in den USA zusammengestellt und soll dem Benutzer rasche Information über den gegenwärtigen Stand der Dinge geben. Mit dem Erscheinen der kritischen Werkausgabe im Laufe der Achtzigerjahre wird sich die Situation, besonders was Übersetzungen anbelangt, wohl sehr verändern. Die Bibliographie entstand aus der Erwägung heraus, daß bisher noch keine Bemühung darauf gerichtet war, in übersichtlicher Form Kafkas Werke und ihre Übersetzungen in andere Sprachen in einem Band zu vereinen. Es wurde möglichst vollständige Verzeichnung angestrebt, einschließlich der verschiedenen Auflagen und Übersetzungen. Es war zu erwarten, daß Kafkas Werke in die wichtigsten Weltsprachen übersetzt wurden. Das Erstaunliche ist aber, wie weit Kafka in Sprachbereiche eingedrungen ist, die keine globale Bedeutung haben. Gleichzeitig mußte man aber auch feststellen, daß es, genau genommen, eigentlich keine englische Gesamtausgabe von Kafkas Werken gibt.
Three Sons
Franz Kafka was a self-conscious writer whose texts were highly if mysteriously autobiographical. Three giants of contemporary fiction—J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W. G. Sebald—have all acknowledged their debt to the work of Kafka, both in interviews and in their own academic essays and articles for a general readership about him. In this striking feat of literary scholarship, Daniel Medin finds that the use of Kafka by Coetzee, Roth, and Sebald is similarly self-reflexive and autobiographical. That writers from such divergent national and ethnic traditions can have such unique critical readings of Kafka, and that Kafka could exert such a powerful influence over their oeuvres, Medin contends, attests to the central place of Kafka in the contemporary literary imagination.
Kafka: A Guide for the Perplexed
Student guide to Franz Kafka, focusing on giving guidance through the difficulties readers can encounter in studying his work.
Franz Kafka, The Jewish Patient
This is the first book about Kafka that uses the writer's medical records. Gillman explores the relation of the body to cultural myths, and brings a unique and fascinating perspective to Kafka's life and writings.
