LEADER 03124nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910785525203321 005 20230621182848.0 010 $a3-11-092009-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110920093 035 $a(CKB)2670000000234886 035 $a(EBL)937461 035 $a(OCoLC)843999159 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000559648 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11368859 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000559648 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10567522 035 $a(PQKB)11559500 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC937461 035 $a(WaSeSS)Ind00009996 035 $a(DE-B1597)45158 035 $a(OCoLC)979629043 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110920093 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL937461 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10585302 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000234886 100 $a19870429e19872010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aConstructive destruction $eKafka's aphorisms, literary tradition, and literary transformation /$fRichard T. Gray 205 $aReprint 2010 210 1$aTu?bingen :$cM. Niemeyer,$d1987. 215 $a1 online resource (316 pages) 225 0 $aStudien zur deutschen Literatur ;$v91 311 0 $a3-484-18091-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 293-308). 327 $tFront matter --$tIntroduction --$tCHAPTER ONE: History, Tradition, and Structure of the Aphorism --$tCHAPTER TWO: Aphorism and Aphorists in Turn-of-the-Century Austria --$tCHAPTER THREE: Kafka: Aphoristic Text and Aphoristic Context --$tCHAPTER FOUR: Kafka and his Aphoristic Precursors --$tCHAPTER FIVE: Kafka's Aphorisms: Intratext and Intertext --$tCHAPTER SIX: Aphorism and Met-Aphorism: The Relationship of Aphorism and Parable in Kafka's ?uvre --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY 330 $aThe study presents a thorough investigation of Kafka's aphoristic writings, examining them in terms of the history of the aphorism in Germany, and paying special regard to Kafka's contemporary Austrian aphorists. Emphasis is placed on the role of the aphorism in the development of Kafka's literary creativity. Aphoristic discourse presented itself to Kafka as a possible manner of resolving specific conflicts in his life and art, above all the crisis of communication the individuality of the self. Aphoristic structure provides the transitional link between Kafka ?s early perspectivistic narrative 410 0$aStudien zur deutschen Literatur 606 $aAphorisms and apothegms$xHistory and criticism 606 $aParables$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGerman prose literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aAphorisms and apothegms$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aParables$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGerman prose literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a833/.912 686 $aGM 4004$2rvk 700 $aGray$b Richard T$0247614 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785525203321 996 $aConstructive destruction$93819092 997 $aUNINA