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Kafka's Rhetoric : The Passion of Reading / Clayton Koelb.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©1989Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501745966
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 833/.912
LOC classification:
  • PT2621.A26Z7644 1989
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Rhetoric, Reading, and Writing -- 2. The Rhetorical "Kafka" -- 3. Acts of Rhetoric -- 4. Two Readings of Reading -- 5. The Rhetoric of Realism -- 6. Reading the Classics -- 7. The Rhetoric of Parable -- 8. The Clothed Body -- 9. Lived Rhetoric -- 10. The Passion of Reading -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: In the first book to study Franz Kafka from the perspective of modern rhetorical theory, Clayton Koelb explores such questions as how Kafka understood the reading process, how he thematized the problematic of reading, and how his highly distinctive style relates to what Koelb describes as the "passion of reading."
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781501745966

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- 1. Rhetoric, Reading, and Writing -- 2. The Rhetorical "Kafka" -- 3. Acts of Rhetoric -- 4. Two Readings of Reading -- 5. The Rhetoric of Realism -- 6. Reading the Classics -- 7. The Rhetoric of Parable -- 8. The Clothed Body -- 9. Lived Rhetoric -- 10. The Passion of Reading -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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In the first book to study Franz Kafka from the perspective of modern rhetorical theory, Clayton Koelb explores such questions as how Kafka understood the reading process, how he thematized the problematic of reading, and how his highly distinctive style relates to what Koelb describes as the "passion of reading."

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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