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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924"”.
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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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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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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 …