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082 0 4 _a833/.9/12
084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aRolleston, James
_eautore
245 1 0 _aKafka's Narrative Theater /
_cJames Rolleston.
264 1 _aUniversity Park, PA :
_bPenn State University Press,
_c[1990]
264 4 _c©1974
300 _a1 online resource (228 p.)
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction --
_t1 "Description of a Struggle" --
_t2 Open Structure: "The Stoker" --
_t3 "The Urban World": The Experience of the Theater --
_t4 "The Judgment" --
_t5 "The Metamorphosis" --
_t6 Closed Structure: The Trial --
_t7 Closed Structure: "In the Penal Colony" --
_t8 The Functional and the Arbitrary: "The Village Schoolteacher" and "The Great Wall of China" --
_t9 Reopened Structure: The Castle --
_t10 Historical Structure: "Josefine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk --
_t11 The Making of Kafka's Heroes --
_tNotes --
_tSources Consulted --
_tIndex of Kafka's Works and Characters --
_tIndex of Names
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aCan one speak of Kafka's heroes as ";characters";? If so, why is it so hard to define their characteristics? If not, how is the reader persuaded to accompany them on their existential journeys, accepting their behavior as falling within the realm of human logic? This study argues that Kafka's fiction has two conflicting premises: the subjective impossibility of human existence, foreclosing all hope of ";meaning"; in individual actions; and the ordered structure of human thoughts which assign meaning to the smallest event and analyze endlessly the behavior of other people. Kafka's characters are always, either potentially or actually, moving in both directions at once, earnestly building up a continuous logic to their actions while skeptically dismantling their own pretensions to existence. The device of the circumscribed narrator, congruent with the hero, knowing only what the hero knows, yet not identical with him, enables Kafka to contain both fundamental tendencies in a single sentence.Although Kafka is widely read, his works seem to give rise very easily to misconceptions; this study is designed primarily to facilitate an intelligent reading of Kafka. Without imposing answers of its own, it seeks to foster an awareness of the problems of perspective and presentation which Kafka engages.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Mrz 2023)
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780271072838?locatt=mode:legacy
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