The myth of power and the self
Subtitle: essays on Franz Kafka
By: Walter H. Sokel.
Series: Kritik; Kritik (Detroit, Mich.)
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Detroit, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Power (Philosophy) in literature.; Self (Philosophy) in literature.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 The Myth of Power and the Self: An Autobiographical; title: Account of Reading Kafka; title: 2 Franz Kafka; title: 3 Kafka's Poetics of the Inner Self; title: 4 Language and Truth in the Two Worlds of Franz Kafka; title: 5 Symbol, Allegory, Existential Sign:; title: Three Approaches to Kafka; title: 6 The Relationship of Narrative Perspective to; title: Narrative Action and Meaning in "Before the Law,"; title: "Jackals and Arabs," and The Trial; title: 7 Freud and the Magic of Kafka's Writing; title: 8 Kafka's Beginnings: Narcissism, Magic, and the; title: Function of Narration in "Description of a Struggle"; title: 9 Perspectives and Truth in "The Judgment"; title: 10 From Marx to Myth: The Structure and Function of; title: Self-Alienation in Kafka's "The Metamorphosis"; title: 11 The Program of K.'s Court: Oedipal and; title: Existential Meanings of The Trial; title: 12 The Three Endings of Josef K. and the Role of; title: Art in The Trial; title: 13 Identity and the Individual, or Past and Present:; title: Franz Kafka's "A Report to an Academy" in a; title: Psychoanalytic and a Sociohistorical Context; title: 14 Between Gnosticism and Jehovah: The Dilemma in; title: Kafka's Religious Attitude; title: 15 Freedom and Authority in the Fiction of Franz Kafka; title: Other Essays on Kafka by Walter H. Sokel.