John T. Hamilton

France/Kafka (eBook, PDF)

An Author in Theory

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765100394
• Artikelnr.: 67165010

Autorenporträt

John T. Hamilton is William R. Kenan Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Harvard University, USA. He is the author of seven books, including most recently Philology of the Flesh (2018) and Complacency: Classics and its Displacement in Higher Education. (2022).

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations I. Gradus ad Parnassum The Writer and the Author in Theory ·
Through a Glass, darkly · From the Louvre to the Louvre · An Improbable
Apparition · A Second Life II. Metamorphoses Naturalization Papers · Amid
Intimacy and Exoticism · Universal Man · Dreams, Rivers, Snow · Translative
Decisions · Bifurcations III. Trials Paratexts · The Adventurer · The Saint
· A Certain Plume · Extremism · Non liquet IV. Contingencies Preoccupations
· Nothing but Nothing · Seasickness on Land · Phantom War · Homo absurdus ·
Impossible Hope · Objective Style V. Judgments Upside Down, Right Side Up ·
Disengagement · Incendiaries · The Child · The Author in Theater VI.
Labyrinths Signs of Change · The New New · Rhizomes · Primal Scenes ·
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