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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Franz Kafka"”.
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Dialektik des Glücks in Texten von Franz Kafka
Nach dem Glück in Texten von Franz Kafka zu fragen, erscheint als Wagnis. Sowohl beim Blick auf die Protagonisten seiner Erzählungen und Romane als auch in den Aphorismen, Tagebucheinträgen und Briefen stellt sich bei Kafka eher das Gegenteil von Glück dar: vergebliche Anstrengungen und ein …
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FILIATIONS OF THE NEGATIVE IN FRANZ KAFKA, PAUL CELAN, AND ANDRE GREEN
… writings of two crucial German-Jewish authors: Franz Kafka (1883-1924) and Paul Celan (1920-1970). Providing a new interdisciplinary re-elaboration of Green’s theory of the Negative between psychoanalysis, literature, and Jewish studies, the work investigates the role of the Negative in Kafka’s …
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The experience of restlessness: a study of movement in the shorter fiction of Franz Kafka
… of movement represent a ubiquitous element in Kafka’s writings. This study explores the role of these images as a form of patterning in the fictions. With an eye to continuity and evolution, the study explores the patterns of movement pervading Kafka’s early collection Betrachtung and a …
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Dandyism as a principle of aesthetic composition: a study of Georg Büchner, Franz Kafka and Oswald Wiener.
… from the dandyism of Buchner to that of Kafka, I argue in part II that Kafka' s dandyism is a development of Buchner' s. Kafka addresses the question of clothing throughout his writing, starting with the shiny surfaces of elegant clothing that particularly occupy him in his early texts …
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Transforming Narratives: Subjectivity and Metamorphosis in Franz Kafka, Vladimir Nabokov, Alejo Carpentier, Vassilis Vassilikos, Virginia Woolf, and Marie Darrieussecq
… a close reading of insect metamorphosis in Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” (1915) and Vladimir Nabokov’s “The Aurelian” (1931). Chapter Two addresses the postcolonial dimension of subjectivity and its collective construction in terms of the loss of home in Alejo Carpentier’s The Kingdom of …
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Order in a world of chaos: a comparative study of a central dialectic in works of Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka and Luis Cernuda
… of three overtly unrelated authors. Thomas Mann, Kafka and Cernuda, setting them in a European context of a 'crisis of faith' where doubt in the existence of an ordered universe ultimately governed by God is becoming widespread. Rather than a philosophical or theological study, however, this …
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Shambles & Crowley: Autobiographical Fiction in Four Panels
… a burnt-out boy, Crowley, a loudmouthed crow, Franz Kafka, a silent companion, Saadat Manto, a prankster, and God, an overbearing authority figure. Drawing inspiration from comic strips such as Peanuts by Charles Schulz, Calvin & Hobbes by Will Waterson, and shows such as Louie by Louis C.K, …
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Jews Behind Glass: The Ethnographic Impulse in German-Jewish and Yiddish Literature, 1900-1948
… prominent in the works of Alfred Döblin, Franz Kafka, and Arnold Zweig in German and S. An-sky in Yiddish. This dissertation identifies the permutations of these ethnographic discourses in German-Jewish and Yiddish literature, opening new avenues of exploration in the study of the literary …
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Conceptions of Hearing in German Modernist Writing
… the new medium of the telephone. I suggest that Franz Kafka and Walter Benjamin understood the telephone as part of a longer tradition of listening, specifically to the sea shell, and that this blending of tradition with contemporary media discourse gave unique expression to their respective …
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Animistic Fictions: German Modernism, Film, and the Animation of Things
… this perceived crisis, modernist texts by Rilke, Franz Kafka, and others present an animated life of things as a highly ambivalent fiction, posing both a distorted and potentially recuperative relationship between humans and things. Alongside textual representations of animated things in Kafka's …
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Fevers in a Reykjavík Graveyard: A COVID Novella in Modernist Iceland
… Sarah Cole, Halldór Laxness, Elizabeth Outka, Franz Kafka, and many other modernist figures.
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Little world/mundinho: an 'antropofagic' and autobiographic performance (uma performance antropofagica e autobiografica)
… drawing on the writings of Clarice Lispector, Franz Kafka, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and the performance practices of Brazilian Candomblé and Japanese Butoh. It attempts to place the spectator in the position of the performer, encountering 'Australia' through another culture and language. And …
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Everybody died on the shortest day – a collection of short speculative fiction
… science fiction and surrealism. Authors such as Franz Kafka, Kobo Abe, Mariana Enriquez and Edgar Allan Poe have profoundly influenced my own writing. In part, as a tribute to these influences, I have sought to write a collection of stories inspired by my personal vision of a speculative future …
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Afterlives: Translations of German Weltliteratur Into Yiddish
… Jewish identity. The Yiddish reception of Franz Kafka, in contrast, reflects a desire to make him part of a Jewish literary canon.
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Pour une lecture de "l'enfantin" chez Cocteau, Fitzgerald, Kafka, Saint-Exupéry et Vian
… F. Scott Fitzgerald, La Métamorphose (1915) by Franz Kafka, Le Petit Prince (1943) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry and L’Arrache-coeur (1953) by Boris Vian. Distinct from both childhood narratives and narratives for children, these texts nevertheless exhibit a childlike quality that can best be …
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Spaces of the Ear: Literature, Media, and the Science of Sound, 1870-1930
… study. In Chapter 2 I analyze the ways in which Franz Kafka appropriated elements of the modern soundscape and, in particular, ontological disorders common to the factory worker, in conceptualizing the mechanisms of the modern legal system and its epistemological and perceptual effects on its …
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Kontroverses Erbe und Innovation : die Novelle Die Reisebegegnung von Anna Seghers im literaturpolitischen Kontext der DDR der siebziger Jahre
… of "Nikolai Gogol", "E. T. A. Hoffmann" and "Franz Kafka" as representations of the aesthetics of realism, romanticism and modernism respectively. The use of allegory marks a significant breakaway from the method of social realism. The chapter also tries to show the intertextuality of the …
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Philip Guston’s Absurd and the Sisyphean Affirmation in the Battle for Existentialism
… reading of a multitude of literary texts from Franz Kafka to Pasternak, Valery, Mallarme, and of course Sartre and Camus as attested by his daughter Musa Mayer will be woven into Guston 10545398 Jason Blacklock 7 narrative. This intermingles with Guston’s detachment and distance from society. …
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‘University Must Be Saved’ Genealogy As A Knowledge Approach.
… Butera (2007), I will summarize the works of Franz Kafka, Philip K. Dick and James Ballard, but also recent contributions from artistic and pedagogical research. Keywords: Genealogy, Grid of Intelligibility, Knowledge, Power, Control, Subjectivation, EHEA, Audit, Automation.
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Deranged doctors and panicked patients: the doctor-patient relationship in fin de siécle literature
… Finsternis (Flight into Darkness written 1917), Franz Kafka’s “Ein Landarzt (“A Country Doctor” written 1916-17), and Amalie Skram’s Professor Hieronimus and På St. Jørgen (published together as Under Observation 1895).
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