Kafka's ethics of interpretation : between tyranny and despair /

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Kafka's Ethics of Interpretation refutes the oft-repeated claim, made by Kafka's greatest interpreters, including Walter Benjamin and Harold Bloom, that Kafka sought to evade interpretation of his writings. Jennifer L. Geddes shows that this claim about Kafka's deliberate uninterpreta...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Geddes, Jennifer L. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2016.
Subjects:
Kafka, Franz, > 1883-1924 > Criticism and interpretation.
Kafka, Franz, > 1883-1924.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The tyranny of simplicity and the fantasy of completion : Kafka's "Letter to his father" and Freud's Interpretation of dreams
  • The power of interpretation and the interpretation of power : Kafka's "The judgment" and Bourdieu's Social theory
  • The virtue of hesitation and the temptation of resolution : Kafka's "The metamorphosis" and Todorov's Fantastic
  • The ethics of attention and the meaning of pain : Kafka's "In the penal colony" and Levinas's "Useless suffering."

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