Franz Kafka
Subtitle: the ghosts in the machine
By: Stanley Corngold and Benno Wagner
Contributors: Wagner, Benno, 1958-
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Evanston, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 273
ISBN-13: 9780810127692
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Kafka's stories: Zarathustra on Laurentian Hill: Quetelet, Nietzsche, and Mach ("Description of a struggle"); title: The birth of writing from suicide statistics ("The judgment"); title: Ways of looking at a vermin (The metamorphosis); title: The punch card and the poet's body ("In the penal colony"); title: Kafka and the philosophy of music; or, "Des Kommas Fehl hilft" ("Researches of a dog"); title: The ministry of writing (The castle); title: Part 2. Kafka's person, Kafka's world: Kafka and sex; title: Kafka (with Nietzsche) as neo-gnostic thinkers; title: The calm of writing: Kafka's poetics of accident; title: Dissenting discourses: "I am not competent to decide that".