The Myth of Power and the Self: Essays on Franz KafkaThe Myth of Power and the Self brings together Walter Sokel's most significant essays on Kafka written over a period of thirty-one years, 1966-1997. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) has come to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. The Myth of Power and the Self brings together Walter Sokel's most significant essays on Kafka written over a period of thirty-one years, 1966-1997. This volume begins with a discussion of Sokel's 1966 pamphlet on Kafka and a summary of his 1964 book, Tragik und Ironie (Tragedy and Irony), which has never been translated into English, and includes several essays published in English for the first time. Sokel places Kafka's writings in a very large cultural context by fusing Freudian and Expressionist perspectives and incorporating more theoretical approaches--linguistic theory, Gnosticism, and aspects of Derrida--into his synthesis. This superb collection of essays by one of the most qualified Kafka scholars today will bring new understanding to Kafka's work and will be of interest to literary critics, intellectual historians, and students and scholars of German literature and Kafka. |
Contents
Acknowledgments | 7 |
Franz Kafka | 35 |
Kafkas Poetics of the Inner Self | 65 |
Language and Truth in the Two Worlds of Franz Kafka | 82 |
The Relationship of Narrative Perspective | 115 |
Freud and the Magic of Kafkas Writing | 152 |
Narcissism Magic and | 166 |
Perspectives and Truth in The Judgment | 181 |
The Structure and Function | 216 |
The Three Endings of Josef K and the Role | 247 |
The Dilemma | 292 |
Freedom and Authority in the Fiction of Franz Kafka | 311 |
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References to this book
Slavoj Zizek - Die Bedeutung von Jouissance für Franz Kafkas "Prozeß" Petra Leitmeir Limited preview - 2007 |