Constructive Destruction
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Constructive Destruction

Kafka's Aphorisms: Literary Tradition and Literary Transformation

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  2. English
  3. PDF
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Constructive Destruction

Kafka's Aphorisms: Literary Tradition and Literary Transformation

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Die Reihe Studien zur deutschen Literatur präsentiert herausragende Untersuchungen zur deutschsprachigen Literatur von der Frßhen Neuzeit bis zur Gegenwart. Offen besonders auch fßr komparatistische, kulturwissenschaftliche und wissensgeschichtliche Fragestellungen, bietet sie ein traditionsreiches Forum fßr innovative literaturwissenschaftliche Forschung.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2012
Print ISBN
9783484180918
eBook ISBN
9783110920093
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Jewish History
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. CHAPTER ONE: History, Tradition, and Structure of the Aphorism
  3. I. The History of the Aphorism
  4. II. The German and French Models of Aphoristic Expression
  5. III. The Text-Internal Dialectic of the Aphorism
  6. IV. Aphorism and Hermeneutics: The Text-External Dialectic
  7. V. Aphorism and Linguistic Scepticism
  8. CHAPTER TWO: Aphorism and Aphorists in Turn-of-the-Century Austria
  9. I. Aphorism and Zeitgeist
  10. II. From Impression to Epiphany: The Aphorism in the Austrian Jahrhundertwende
  11. III. Aphorism and Sprachkrise in Turn-of-the-Century Austria
  12. CHAPTER THREE: Kafka: Aphoristic Text and Aphoristic Context
  13. I. Kafka and Turn-of-the-Century Austria
  14. II. Kafka's Inclination Toward Aphoristic Utterances
  15. III. Kafka and “Aphoristics”
  16. IV. Kafka's Aphorisms and the Crisis of Communication
  17. CHAPTER FOUR: Kafka and his Aphoristic Precursors
  18. I. Aphorism and Autobiography: Self-Observation and Self-Projection
  19. II. Pascal and Kierkegaard: Scepticism and Critical Method
  20. III. Aphorism and Polemics: Karl Kraus
  21. CHAPTER FIVE: Kafka's Aphorisms: Intratext and Intertext
  22. I. Compositional History and Compositional Strategies of Kafka's Aphorisms
  23. II. Form and Structure of Kafka's Aphorisms
  24. CHAPTER SIX: Aphorism and Met-Aphorism: The Relationship of Aphorism and Parable in Kafka's OEuvre
  25. BIBLIOGRAPHY

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