Expeditions to Kafka: Selected Essays
Autor Professor or Dr. Stanley Corngolden Limba Engleză Hardback – 7 sep 2023
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9798765100424
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 154 x 232 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 154 x 232 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
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
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
Recenzii
The essays in the present volume demonstrate why Corngold is responsible in great degree for readers' understanding of Kafka's literary imagination. Corngold provides a critical road map through nearly a century of Kafka scholarship, with footnotes genuflecting to the previous generation ... Recommended [for] lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.
With superb erudition and his inimitable flair, Stanley Corngold's Expeditions offer a magisterial guide through the intricate and ambiguous terrain of Kafka's texts. Insights abound, providing a comprehensive and consistently profound investigation that strikes the perfect balance between drawing interpretive conclusions and maintaining hermeneutic openness-a culminating accomplishment by Kafka's most inspired and most inspiring reader.
You are not being introduced to Kafka - you fall into his stories as you fall into a trap, the bait emerging in the interstices between his words and your mind. That said, Corngold's Expeditions are by far the best introduction to Kafka I have seen. He invites you to join him on his ventures into Continent Kafka, and he inspires you to stray off from his expeditions on your own terms, and risk.
Stanley Corngold has been reading, reflecting, and commenting on Kafka and his writings for more than half a century. He has become our most penetrating and luminous guide to Kafka's labyrinthine world. These essays, the distillate of a lifetime, manage both to reveal and to preserve the mystery of Kafka's genius.
There is hardly an area of Kafka's life, hardly a debate in Kafka criticism that Expeditions does not weigh in on. In this essay collection, Corngold brings to bear a lifetime of work as an eminently gifted, astute, and diligent translator, editor, and critic.
With superb erudition and his inimitable flair, Stanley Corngold's Expeditions offer a magisterial guide through the intricate and ambiguous terrain of Kafka's texts. Insights abound, providing a comprehensive and consistently profound investigation that strikes the perfect balance between drawing interpretive conclusions and maintaining hermeneutic openness-a culminating accomplishment by Kafka's most inspired and most inspiring reader.
You are not being introduced to Kafka - you fall into his stories as you fall into a trap, the bait emerging in the interstices between his words and your mind. That said, Corngold's Expeditions are by far the best introduction to Kafka I have seen. He invites you to join him on his ventures into Continent Kafka, and he inspires you to stray off from his expeditions on your own terms, and risk.
Stanley Corngold has been reading, reflecting, and commenting on Kafka and his writings for more than half a century. He has become our most penetrating and luminous guide to Kafka's labyrinthine world. These essays, the distillate of a lifetime, manage both to reveal and to preserve the mystery of Kafka's genius.
There is hardly an area of Kafka's life, hardly a debate in Kafka criticism that Expeditions does not weigh in on. In this essay collection, Corngold brings to bear a lifetime of work as an eminently gifted, astute, and diligent translator, editor, and critic.