Kafka's Rhetoric : : The Passion of Reading / / Clayton Koelb.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Koelb, Clayton,
• MitwirkendeR: Koelb, Clayton,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1989
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; 1. Rhetoric, Reading, and Writing --; 2. The Rhetorical "Kafka" --; 3. Acts of Rhetoric --; 4. Two Readings of Reading --; 5. The Rhetoric of Realism --; 6. Reading the Classics --; 7. The Rhetoric of Parable --; 8. The Clothed Body --; 9. Lived Rhetoric --; 10. The Passion of Reading --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501745966; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501745966
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Clayton Koelb.

In the first book to study Franz Kafka from the perspective of modern rhetorical theory, Clayton Koelb explores such questions as how Kafka understood the reading process, how he thematized the problematic of reading, and how his highly distinctive style relates to what Koelb describes as the "passion of reading."