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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785525203321

Autore

Gray Richard T

Titolo

Constructive destruction : Kafka's aphorisms, literary tradition, and literary transformation / / Richard T. Gray

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tübingen : , : M. Niemeyer, , 1987

ISBN

3-11-092009-3

Edizione

[Reprint 2010]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (316 pages)

Collana

Studien zur deutschen Literatur ; ; 91

Classificazione

GM 4004

Disciplina

833/.912

Soggetti

Aphorisms and apothegms - History and criticism

Parables - History and criticism

German prose literature - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-308).

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: History, Tradition, and Structure of the Aphorism -- CHAPTER TWO: Aphorism and Aphorists in Turn-of-the-Century Austria -- CHAPTER THREE: Kafka: Aphoristic Text and Aphoristic Context -- CHAPTER FOUR: Kafka and his Aphoristic Precursors -- CHAPTER FIVE: Kafka's Aphorisms: Intratext and Intertext -- CHAPTER SIX: Aphorism and Met-Aphorism: The Relationship of Aphorism and Parable in Kafka's Œuvre -- BIBLIOGRAPHY

Sommario/riassunto

The study presents a thorough investigation of Kafka's aphoristic writings, examining them in terms of the history of the aphorism in Germany, and paying special regard to Kafka's contemporary Austrian aphorists. Emphasis is placed on the role of the aphorism in the development of Kafka's literary creativity. Aphoristic discourse presented itself to Kafka as a possible manner of resolving specific conflicts in his life and art, above all the crisis of communication the individuality of the self. Aphoristic structure provides the transitional link between Kafka ́s early perspectivistic narrative