The Kafka Codex
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The Kafka Codex
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Author : Pasquale De Marco
language : en
Publisher: Pasquale De Marco
Release Date : 2025-07-07
The Kafka Codex written by Pasquale De Marco and has been published by Pasquale De Marco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-07-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Immerse yourself in the enigmatic universe of Franz Kafka, a literary giant whose haunting tales have captivated readers for generations. This comprehensive exploration delves into the depths of Kafka's major works, unlocking their psychological, philosophical, and societal themes. Through meticulous analysis and thought-provoking insights, we illuminate Kafka's einzigartige vision of the human condition, marked by alienation, bureaucracy, and the search for meaning in a seemingly absurd world. Chapter by chapter, we navigate the labyrinthine landscapes of his novels and short stories, exploring the complexities of characters like Gregor Samsa, Josef K., and K. We examine Kafka's mastery of symbolism and metaphor, revealing the hidden depths and nuances of his narratives. Dreams and nightmares intertwine, blurring the boundaries between reality and the subconscious. The grotesque and the absurd converge, challenging our perceptions and provoking profound contemplation. Beyond his literary genius, we explore Kafka's profound influence on 20th-century literature and beyond. His impact can be traced in the works of countless writers, artists, and filmmakers, solidifying his status as a literary icon. We delve into the diverse interpretations and adaptations of Kafka's work, showcasing its enduring relevance and adaptability. In this comprehensive guide, we unravel the enigma of Kafka himself. His enigmatic life and untimely death have fueled speculation and intrigue. We delve into the mysteries surrounding his writings, seeking to understand the motivations and inspirations behind his profoundly influential work. Throughout this exploration, we invite readers to engage with Kafka's thought-provoking ideas and to discover the enduring relevance of his writing in the modern world. Kafka's literary universe remains a testament to the power of literature to challenge our assumptions, provoke our imaginations, and illuminate the complexities of the human condition. If you like this book, write a review on google books!
Franz Kafka
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Author : Stanley Corngold
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 2011-08-30
Franz Kafka written by Stanley Corngold and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-08-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
"It is widely acknowledged that Kafka's daytime occupation as a specialist in industrial accident insurance contributed in a significant way to his fiction. Corngold and Wagner frame Kafka's writings as cultural events, each work reflecting the economic and cultural discourses of his epoch. In pursuing Kafka's avowed interest in the theory and practice of insurance, the authors view the two systems of his literary worlds--the official and the personal--as a "bundling" together of the various cultural accidents of Kafka's time. The work of two of the leading scholars of the single most influential writer of literary modernity, Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine constitutes a breathtakingly original advance in the study of both the more famous and less well-known works of this enigmatic master."--From publisher description.
Franz Kafka
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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2010
Franz Kafka written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
A collection of critical essays on Kafka and his work arranged in chronological order of publication.
Journal Of The Kafka Society Of America
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Journal Of The Kafka Society Of America written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with categories.
Kafka S Novels
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Author : Patrick Bridgwater
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-11-22
Kafka S Novels written by Patrick Bridgwater and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Kafka's three novels, to be understood as an ever more intricate portrayal of the inner life of one central character (Henry James's 'centre of consciousness'), each reflecting the problems of their self-critical creator, are tantamount to dreams. The hieroglyphic, pictorial language in which they are written is the symbolic language in which dreams and thoughts on the edge of sleep are visualized. Not for nothing did Kafka define his writing as a matter of fantasizing with whole orchestras of [free] associations. Written in a deliberately enhanced hypnagogic state, these novels embody the alternative logic of dreams, with the emphasis on chains of association and verbal bridges between words and word-complexes. The product of many years' preoccupation with its subject, Patrick Bridgwater's new book is an original, chapter-by-chapter study of three extraordinarily detailed novels, of each of which it offers a radically new reading that makes more, and different, sense than any previous reading. In Barthes' terms these fascinating novels are 'unreadable', but the present book shows that, properly read, they are entirely, if ambiguously, readable. Rooted in Kafka's use of language, it consistently explores, in detail, (i) the linguistic implications of the dreamlike nature of his work, (ii) the metaphors he takes literally, and (iii) the ambiguities of so many of the words he chooses to use. In doing so it takes account not only of the secondary meanings of German words and the sometimes dated metaphors of which Kafka, taking them literally, spins his text, but also, where relevant, of Czech and Italian etymology. Split, for ease of reference, into chapters corresponding to the chapters of the novels in the new Originalfassung, the book is aimed at all readers of Kafka with a knowledge of German, for the author shows that Kafka's texts can be understood only in the language in which they were written: because Kafka's meaning is often hidden beneath the surface of the text, conveyed via secondary meanings that are specific to German, any translation is necessarily an Oberflächenübersetzung.
Philosophy As A Literary Art
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Author : Costica Bradatan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-14
Philosophy As A Literary Art written by Costica Bradatan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-14 with Philosophy categories.
Despite philosophers’ growing interest in the relation between philosophy and literature in general, over the last few decades comparatively few studies have been published dealing more narrowly with the literary aspects of philosophical texts. The relationship between philosophy and literature is too often taken to be "literature as philosophy" and very rarely "philosophy as literature." It is the dissatisfaction with this one-sidedness that lies at the heart of the present volume. Philosophy has nothing to lose by engaging in a serious process of literary self-analysis. On the contrary, such an exercise would most likely make it stronger, more sophisticated, more playful and especially more self-reflexive. By not moving in this direction, philosophy places itself in the position of not following what has been deemed, since Socrates at least, the worthiest of all philosophical ideals: self-knowledge. This book was originally published as a special issue of The European Legacy.
Body And Image Space
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Author : Sigrid Weigel
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-12-16
Body And Image Space written by Sigrid Weigel and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-16 with Education categories.
Assembled here for the first time in English translation Sigrid Weigel offers illuminating new insights into Benjamin's theory, combining impulses from post-structuralism, feminism, cultural anthropology and psychoanalysis.
The Hand At Work
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Author : Susanne Strätling
language : en
Publisher: Academic Studies PRess
Release Date : 2021-12-14
The Hand At Work written by Susanne Strätling and has been published by Academic Studies PRess this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Art = New Vision. This formula shaped the avant-garde. With moving images abruptly expanding the boundaries of the visible world, new printing techniques triggering a pictorial turn in graphic art, and literature becoming almost inseparable from visual media, we still regard the avant-garde as heyday for modernism’s obsession with the eye. But what are the blind spots of this optocentrism? Focusing on the gestures of giving, touching, showing, and handcrafting, this study examines key scenes of tactile interaction between subject and artifact. Hand movements, manual maneuvers and manipulations challenge optics and expose the crises of a visually dominated perspective on the arts. The readings of this book call for a revision of an optically obscured aesthetics and poetics to include haptic experience as an often overlooked but pivotal part of the making, as well as the perception, of literature and the arts.
Premises
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Author : Werner Hamacher
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1999
Premises written by Werner Hamacher and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Poetry does not impose, it exposes itself," wrote Paul Celan. Werner Hamacher's investigations into crucial texts of philosophical and literary modernity show that Celan's apothegm is also valid for the structure of understanding and for language in general. In Premises Hamacher demonstrates that the promise of a subject position is not only unavoidable--and thus operates as a structural imperative--but is also unattainable and therefore by necessity open to possibilities other than that defined as "position," to redefinitions and unexpected transformations of the merely thetical act. Proceeding along the lines of both philosophical argument and critical reading, Hamacher presents the fullest account of the vast disruption in the theories and ethics of positional and propositional acts--a disruption first exposed by Kant's analysis of the minimal requirements for linguistic and practical action. Focusing on the double trait of every premise--that it is promised but never attained--Hamacher analyzes nine decisive themes, topics, and texts of modernity: the hermeneutic circle in Schleiermacher and Heidegger, the structure of ethical commands in Kant, Nietzsche's genealogy of moral terms and his exploration of the aporias of singularity, the irony of reading in de Man, the parabasis of positing acts in Fichte and Schlegel, Kleist's disruption of narrative representation, the gesture of naming in Benjamin and Kafka, and the incisive caesura that Paul Celan inserts into temporal and linguistic reversals. There is no book that so fully brings the issues of both critical philosophy and critical literature into reach. Reviews "Werner Hamacher's Premises is the heir and successor to the most important theoretical and critical work done in American departments of comparative literature from the 1960s through the 1980s. Yet, Premises is no more a work of literary scholarship than one of philosophical submission to philosophy. With the gesture that is genuinely called post-structural, which is the suspicion and suspension of every code, the book's act of freedom is freedom to read and write language tout court." --Timothy Bahti, University of Michigan "Hamacher's project can be described as the retracing of the epistemological ground upon which the modern conception of the literary was erected. It is quite clear to me that there is nothing presently available to rival this book." --Wlad Godzich, University of Geneva
Ideologies Of Theory
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Author : Fredric Jameson
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2020-05-05
Ideologies Of Theory written by Fredric Jameson and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-05 with Philosophy categories.
Ideologies of Theory, updated and available for the first time in a single volume, brings together theoretical essays that span Fredric Jameson's long career as a critic. They chart a body of work suspended by the twin poles of literary scholarship and political history, occupying a space vibrant with the tension between critical exegesis and the Marxist intellectual tradition. Jameson's work pushes out the boundaries of the text, making evident the interaction between literature and the disciplines of psychoanalysis, philosophy and cultural theory, all of which are shown to be inseparable from their ideological milieu. The essays in this volume track a shift from ideological analysis to the phenomenology of everyday life, and constitute a rigorous and passionate argument for the necessity of theory as the simultaneous critique of empiricism and idealist philosophy.