Expeditions to Kafka

Selected Essays

Professor or Dr. Stanley Corngold (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2023
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
979-8-7651-0041-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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 10 books, including, The Mind in Exile (Princeton University Press, 2022). 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).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	26.08.2023
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 226 mm
Gewicht	520 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	979-8-7651-0041-7 / 9798765100417
Zustand	Neuware