Lambent Traces : : Franz Kafka / / Stanley Corngold.

On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story "The Judgment," which came out of him "like a regular birth." This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. Thereafter, the search of many of his characters for the Law, for a home,...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
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Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Abbreviations for Kafka Citations
  • Introduction: Beginnings
  • Chapter 1. In the Circle of "The Judgment"
  • Chapter 2. The Trial: The Guilt of an Unredeemed Literary Promise
  • Chapter 3. Medial Interferences in The Trial
  • Chapter 4. Allotria and Excreta in "In the Penal Colony"
  • Chapter 5. Nietzsche, Kafka, and Literary Paternity
  • Chapter 6. Something to Do with the Truth
  • Chapter 7. "A Faith Like a Guillotine"
  • Chapter 8. Kafka and the Dialect of Minor Literature
  • Chapter 9. Adorno's "Notes on Kafka"
  • Chapter 10. On Translation Mistakes, with Special Attention to Kafka in Amerika
  • Chapter 11. The Trouble with Cultural Studies
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index