Kafka and the Universal

Kafka and the Universal
Author: Arthur Cools
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2016-07-25
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 3110457431

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Kafka’s work has been attributed a universal significance and is often regarded as the ultimate witness of the human condition in the twentieth century. Yet his work is also considered paradigmatic for the expression of the singular that cannot be subsumed under any generalization. This paradox engenders questions not only concerning the meaning of the universal as it manifests itself in (and is transformed by) Kafka’s writings but also about the expression of the singular in literary fiction as it challenges the opposition between the universal and the singular. The contributions in this volume approach these questions from a variety of perspectives. They are structured according to the following issues: ambiguity as a tool of deconstructing the pre-established philosophical meanings of the universal; the concept of the law as a major symbol for the universal meaning of Kafka’s writings; the presence of animals in Kafka’s texts; the modernist mode of writing as challenge of philosophical concepts of the universal; and the meaning and relevance of the universal in contemporary Kafka reception. This volume examines central aspects of the interplay between philosophy and literature.


Kafka and the Universal
Language: en
Pages: 282
Authors: Arthur Cools
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-07-25 - Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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Kafka’s work has been attributed a universal significance and is often regarded as the ultimate witness of the human condition in the twentieth century. Yet h
Kafka and the Universal
Language: en
Pages: 328
Authors: Arthur Cools
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher:

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Isolation Vs. Universal Experience in the Writings of Franz Kafka
Language: en
Pages: 0
Authors: Jeanne S. Garfinkle
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 1985 - Publisher:

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Universal Grammar and Narrative Form
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: David Herman
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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In a major rethinking of the functions, methods, and aims of narrative poetics, David Herman exposes important links between modernist and postmodernist literar
Franz Kafka
Language: en
Pages: 401
Authors: Stanley Corngold
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-03-15 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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In Stanley Corngold’s view, the themes and strategies of Kafka’s fiction are generated by a tension between his concern for writing and his growing sense of