Constructive Destruction : : Kafka's Aphorisms: Literary Tradition and Literary Transformation /

Constructive Destruction : : Kafka's Aphorisms: Literary Tradition and Literary Transformation / / Richard T. Gray.

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The study presents a thorough investigation of Kafka's aphoristic writings, examining them in terms of the history of the aphorism in Germany, and paying special regard to Kafka's contemporary Austrian aphorists. Emphasis is placed on the role of the aphorism in the development of Kafka�...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Literary and Cultural Studies - <1990
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Gray, Richard T.,
Place / Publishing House:Tübingen : : Max Niemeyer Verlag, , [2012]
©1987
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Reprint 2010
Language:English
Series:Studien zur deutschen Literatur , 91
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Physical Description:1 online resource (308 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • I-VI
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE: History, Tradition, and Structure of the Aphorism
  • CHAPTER TWO: Aphorism and Aphorists in Turn-of-the-Century Austria
  • CHAPTER THREE: Kafka: Aphoristic Text and Aphoristic Context
  • CHAPTER FOUR: Kafka and his Aphoristic Precursors
  • CHAPTER FIVE: Kafka's Aphorisms: Intratext and Intertext
  • CHAPTER SIX: Aphorism and Met-Aphorism: The Relationship of Aphorism and Parable in Kafka's Œuvre
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY

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