Stanley Corngold

Expeditions to Kafka (eBook, PDF)

Selected Essays

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In this new volume of Kafka studies, which is addressed to both beginning readers of Kafka as well as Kafka scholars, Stanley Corngold discusses Kafka's work in a variety of novel perspectives, including Goethe's The Sufferings of Young Werther; Nietzsche's conception of aphoristic form; bureaucratic organization; accident and risk; the logic of possession and inheritance; and myth, among others.

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. August 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765100448
• Artikelnr.: 68301342

Autorenporträt

Stanley Corngold is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of nine books, including, most recently, Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine and Walter Kaufmann: Philosopher, Humanist, Heretic. He has edited 11 books, including the Norton Critical Edition of Kafka's Selected Stories (ed. and trans., with preface, notes and critical apparatus) and the Modern Library edition of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (ed. and trans., with introduction, notes, and critical materials).

Inhaltsangabe

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