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Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading

By Ronald Speirs , Jakob Lothe , Beatrice Sandberg

Book information

Publisher
Ohio State University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
9780814251775, 0814251773, 9780814211502, 081421150X, 9780814292495, 9780814270776
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1060072 bytes)
Series
Theory and Interpretation of Narrative
Pages
\263
Topic
Literature
Time added
2021-08-17 17:01:55

Description

Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading presents essays by noted Kafka critics and by leading narratologists who explore Kafka’s original and innovative uses of narrative throughout his career. Collectively, these essays by Stanley Corngold, Anniken Greve, Gerhard Kurz, Jakob Lothe, J. Hillis Miller, Gerhard Neumann, James Phelan, Beatrice Sandberg, Ronald Speirs, and Benno Wagner examine a number of provocative questions that arise in narration and narratives in Kafka’s fiction. The arguments of the essays relate both to the peculiarities of Kafka’s story-telling and to general issues in narrative theory. They reflect, for example, the complexity of the issues surrounding the “somebody” doing the telling, the attitude of the narrator to what is told, the perceived purpose(s) of the telling, the implied or actual reader, the progression of events, and the progression of the telling. As the essays also demonstrate, Kafka’s narratives still present a considerable challenge to, as well as a great resource for, narrative theory and analysis.

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