The myth of power and the self : essays on Franz Kafka

著者

• Sokel, Walter H.

書誌事項

The myth of power and the self : essays on Franz Kafka

Walter H. Sokel

（Kritik : German literary theory and cultural studies）

Wayne State University Press, c2002

注記

Includes bibliographies and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

A collection of essays on Franz Kafka by the foremost scholar of Kafka. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) has come to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Born into a Jewish middle-class family in Prague, Bohemia, Kafka was in many ways a solitary figure, isolated in his own mind from any true community of friendship and alienated from his own Jewish heritage. Kafka's writings reflect his inner turmoil, and his novels became a symbol of the anxiety and alienation that pervaded much of twentieth-century society. The Myth of Power and the Self brings together Walter Sokel's most significant essays on Kafka written over a period of thirty-one years, 1966-1997. This volume begins with a discussion of Sokel's 1966 pamphlet on Kafka and a summary of his 1964 book, Tragik und Ironie (Tragedy and Irony), which has never been translated into English, and includes several essays published in English for the first time. Sokel places Kafka's writings in a very large cultural context by fusing Freudian and Expressionist perspectives and incorporating more theoretical approaches - linguistic theory, Gnosticism, and aspects of Derrida - into his synthesis. This superb collection of essays by one of the most qualified Kafka scholars today will bring new understanding to Kafka's work and will be of interest to literary critics, intellectual historians, and students and scholars of German literature and Kafka.

目次

• 1. The Myth of Power and the Self
• 2. Franz Kafka
• 3. Kafka's Poetics of the Inner Self
• 4. Language and Truth in the Two Worlds of Franz Kafka
• 5. Symbol, Allegory, Existential Sign
• 6. The Relationship of Narrative Perspective to Narrative Action and Meaning in ""Before the Law,"" ""Jackals and Arabs,"" and The Trial
• 7. Freud and the Magic of Kafka's Writing
• 8. Kafka's Beginnings
• 9. Perspectives and Truth in ""The Judgment""
• 10. From Marx to Myth
• 11. The Programme of K.'s Court: Oedipal and Existential Meanings of The Trial
• 12. The Three Endings of Josef K. and the Role of Art in The Trial
• 13. Identity and the Individual or Past and Present
• 14. Between Gnosticism and Jehovah
• 15. Freedom and Authority in the Fiction of Franz Kafka

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA58738128
• ISBN:
  • 0814326080
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Detroit
• ページ数/冊数: 334 p.
• 大きさ: 24 cm
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA19408600