France/Kafka

An Author in Theory

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

AvJohn T. Hamilton,USA) Hamilton, John T. (William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Harvard University,John T Hamilton,Imke Meyer

409 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar. Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Finns i fler format (1)

Inbunden

1 319 kr

Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

While his memory languished under Nazi censorship, Franz Kafka covertly circulated through occupied France and soon emerged as a cultural icon, read by the most influential intellectuals of the time as a prophet of the rampant bureaucracy, totalitarian oppression, and absurdity that branded the twentieth century. In tracing the history of Kafka’s reception in postwar France, John T. Hamilton explores how the work of a German-Jewish writer from Prague became a modern classic capable of addressing universal themes of the human condition.Hamilton also considers how Kafka's unique literary corpus came to stimulate reflection in diverse movements, critical approaches, and philosophical schools, from surrealism and existentialism through psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and structuralism to Marxism, deconstruction, and feminism. The story of Kafka’s afterlife in Paris thus furnishes a key chapter in the unfolding of French theory, which continues to guide how we read literature and understand its relationship to the world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-03-23
Mått138 x 214 x 16 mm
Vikt280 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Directions in German Studies
Antal sidor200
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9798765100370

Tillhör följande kategorier

Litteraturvetenskap inom Skonlitteratur
Litteraturteori inom Skonlitteratur

AbbreviationsI. Gradus ad ParnassumThe Writer and the Author in Theory · Through a Glass, darkly · From the Louvre to the Louvre · An Improbable Apparition · A Second Life II. MetamorphosesNaturalization Papers · Amid Intimacy and Exoticism · Universal Man · Dreams, Rivers, Snow · Translative Decisions · BifurcationsIII. TrialsParatexts · The Adventurer · The Saint · A Certain Plume · Extremism · Non liquet IV. ContingenciesPreoccupations · Nothing but Nothing · Seasickness on Land · Phantom War · Homo absurdus · Impossible Hope · Objective StyleV. JudgmentsUpside Down, Right Side Up · Disengagement · Incendiaries · The Child · The Author in TheaterVI. LabyrinthsSigns of Change · The New New · Rhizomes · Primal Scenes · Derrida’s PharmacyBibliographyIndex

This valuable new addition to the vast terrain of Kafka scholarship examines in detail the early reception of the Prague author in France. Hamilton’s [approach] is not a novel method—in the past couple of decades, such a richly contextualized approach has become the gold standard in the overlapping fields of reception history, translation studies, and comparative literature—but it is a compelling one. Coupled with Hamilton’s lively, readable style, these merits will appeal to a wide range of students and academics interested in Kafka as well as in twentieth-century French theory.