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Record Nr.

UNINA9910552773203321

Titolo

Franz Kafka : Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading / / edited by Jakob Lothe, Beatrice Sandberg, and Ronald Speirs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Columbus : , : Ohio State University Press, , 2011

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2014

©2011

ISBN

0-8142-7077-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 251 p. )

Collana

Theory and interpretation of narrative

Altri autori (Persone)

SpeirsRonald

SandbergBeatrice <1942->

LotheJakob

Disciplina

833/.912

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: narration and narratives in Kafka -- Progression, speed, and judgment in Kafka's "Das urteil" / James Phelan -- The human body and the human being in "Die verwandlung" / Anniken Greve -- "Lightning no longer flashes": Kafka's Chinese voice and the thunder of the great war / Benno Wagner -- The abandoned writing desk: on Kafka's metanarratives, as exemplified by "Der heizer" / Gerhard Neumann -- Therese's story in "Der verschollene" / Gerhard Kurz -- The sense of an un-ending: the resistance to narrative closure in Kafka's "Das schloss" / J. Hillis Miller -- Starting in the middle? complications of narrative beginnings and progression in Kafka / Beatrice Sandberg -- The narrative beginning of Kafka's "In der strafkolonie" / Jakob Lothe -- Musical indirections in Kafka's "Forschungen eines hundes" / Stanley Corngold -- The dynamics of narration in betrachtung: "Das urteil," and Kafka's reflections on writing / Ronald Speirs.