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Author:   Prof Isak Winkel Holm (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic USA
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9781501347825

ISBN 10:   1501347829
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   19 September 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction: Kafka and the Political: in the Kaiserpanorama PART ONE 1. We Don’t Want to Accept Him: Content, Form, and Function of Kafka’s Stereoscopes: “Fellowship” 2. They Are Not Human Beings: The Content of Kafka’s Stereoscopes: the Prague Asbestos Works Hermann & Co 3. Simultaneously Also Nothing: The Form of Kafka’s Stereoscopes: “The Judgment” 4. Storming the Border: The Function of Kafka’s Stereoscopes: “Researches of a Dog” PART TWO 5. A Construction of Chance and Laws: Kafka in the Yiddish Theater: Der Meschumed 6. A Weakness of Imagination: Kafka in China: “Building the Great Wall of China” PART THREE 7. A Matter of Justice: Karl as Defence Lawyer: Amerika 8. I Speak for Them, Not for Myself: Josef K. as Popular Speaker: The Trial 9. As If the Whole of Existence Were Transformed: K. as Liberator of Girls: The Castle 10. Worthy of the Law: Conclusion: “On the Question of the Laws” Bibliography Index

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Isak Winkel Holm brings a fresh perspective--a stereoscopic perspective--to the perdurable, vexatious, and fascinating question of how to reconcile Kafka's allegedly 'dream-like' stories with their patent involvement in what Holm calls 'the political,' the question of the foundations of community. Holm's brilliant, exhilarating readings are supported by an exceptionally rich knowledge of literary theory and scholarship in several languages. * Stanley Corngold, Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature, Princeton University, USA * By raising the game from cultural studies to political poetics, by moving on from 'Kafka and the stereoscope' to 'Kafka as stereoscope,' this book wields an axe against the frozen sea of Kafka studies. * Benno Wagner, Professor of Global Studies, Department of Eastern and Western Languages, Zhejiang University, China * In this brilliant and original study, Isak Winkel Holm illuminates what Kafka called his uncanny 'dreamlike inner life,' and how it relates to the Prague author's external circumstances. In lucid and lively prose, Winkel Holm produces nuanced literary readings of Kafka's doubled vision--or what he terms his 'stereoscopic literary style'--to challenge the traditional picture of Kafka as an apolitical and solipsistic writer. * Vivian Liska, Professor of Literature and Philosophy, University of Antwerp, Belgium *

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Isak Winkel Holm is Professor of Comparative Literature at University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His previous publications include Tanken i billedet. Søren Kierkegaards poetik (Thinking in Images: The Poetics of Søren Kierkegaard, 1998) and Stormløb mod grænsen: det politiske hos Franz Kafka (Assault on the Border: The Political in Franz Kafka, 2015).

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