Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form

Stanley Corngold

Published by Cornell University Press 1990

Franz Kafka

The Necessity of Form

Stanley Corngold
Funded by: National Endowment for the Humanities Open Book Program

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501722813

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About this book

In Stanley Corngold’s view, the themes and strategies of Kafka’s fiction are generated by a tension between his concern for writing and his growing sense of its arbitrary character. Analyzing Kafka’s work in light of "the necessity of form," which is also a merely formal necessity, Corngold uncovers the fundamental paradox of Kafka’s art and life.

Author / Editor information

Stanley Corngold is Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He is the author of Complex Pleasure: Forms of Feeling in German Literature, Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka and coauthor of Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine.

Reviews

Robert C. Holub:

For those readers who have admired Stanley Corngold’s essays on Kafka this volume will be particularly welcome. It collects his work on Kafka written over the past two decades. Corngold is at all times concerned with the issue of writing and often with figures (metaphor, chiasmus) at work in Kafka’s prose. This single-mindedness of purpose produces a coherence in the volume and enables Corngold to do what he does best: rhetorical and philosophical analysis of specific words and passages and their implications for Kafka’s fictional logic.

Steven Taubeneck:

The remarkable convergence of form and content in this book brings it close to a work of art.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Open Access Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Open Access Download PDF	xvii
Abbreviations for Kafka Citations Open Access Download PDF	xix
Introduction Open Access Download PDF	1
PART I KAFKA'S CAREER Open Access Download PDF	11
PART II Kafka's C ontext Open Access Download PDF	137
Excursus on Method Open Access Download PDF	289
Index Open Access Download PDF	313

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 348
Keywords: Literary Studies; Europe

eBook

Published: March 15, 2018
ISBN: 9781501722813