03124nam 2200649 a 450 991078552520332120230621182848.03-11-092009-310.1515/9783110920093(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)99267000000023488619870429e19872010 uy 0engurnn#---|u||utxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierConstructive destruction Kafka's aphorisms, literary tradition, and literary transformation /Richard T. GrayReprint 2010Tübingen :M. Niemeyer,1987.1 online resource (316 pages)Studien zur deutschen Literatur ;913-484-18091-9 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 criticismAphorisms and apothegmsHistory and criticism.ParablesHistory and criticism.German prose literatureHistory and criticism.833/.912GM 4004rvkGray Richard T247614MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910785525203321Constructive destruction3819092UNINA