03176nam 2200661 a 450 991046274490332120211210022414.03-11-092009-310.1515/9783110920093(CKB)2670000000234886(EBL)937461(OCoLC)843999159(SSID)ssj0000559648(PQKBManifestationID)11368859(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000559648(PQKBWorkID)10567522(PQKB)11559500(MiAaPQ)EBC937461(WaSeSS)Ind00009996(DE-B1597)45158(OCoLC)979629043(DE-B1597)9783110920093(Au-PeEL)EBL937461(CaPaEBR)ebr10585302(EXLCZ)99267000000023488619870429d1987 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtccrConstructive destruction[electronic resource] Kafka's aphorisms, literary tradition, and literary transformation /Richard T. GrayReprint 2010Tübingen M. Niemeyer19871 online resource (316 p.)Studien zur deutschen Literatur ;91Description based upon print version of record.3-484-18091-9 Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-308).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 --BIBLIOGRAPHYThe 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 narrativeStudien zur deutschen LiteraturAphorisms and apothegmsHistory and criticismParablesHistory and criticismGerman prose literatureHistory and criticismElectronic books.Aphorisms and apothegmsHistory and criticism.ParablesHistory and criticism.German prose literatureHistory and criticism.833/.912Gray Richard T247614MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462744903321Constructive destruction2477274UNINA