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Autore: | Gray Richard T |
Titolo: | Constructive destruction [[electronic resource] ] : Kafka's aphorisms, literary tradition, and literary transformation / / Richard T. Gray |
Pubblicazione: | Tübingen, : M. Niemeyer, 1987 |
Edizione: | Reprint 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (316 p.) |
Disciplina: | 833/.912 |
Soggetto topico: | Aphorisms and apothegms - History and criticism |
Parables - History and criticism | |
German prose literature - History and criticism | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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 Å’uvre -- 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Constructive destruction |
ISBN: | 3-11-092009-3 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910462744903321 |
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