Kafka's Rhetoric
The Passion of Reading
1st Edition
Published on 15. May 2019
272 pages
978-1-5017-4596-6 (ISBN)
Description
In the first book to study Franz Kafka from the perspective of modern rhetorical theory, Clayton Koelb explores such questions as how Kafka understood the reading process, how he thematized the problematic of reading, and how his highly distinctive style relates to what Koelb describes as the "passion of reading." -- Cornell University Press
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Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Edition type
Digital original
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-4596-6 (9781501745966)
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Book
06/1989
Cornell University Press
€38.38
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Person
Clayton Koelb is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. -- Cornell University Press
Content
- Cover
- KAFKA'S RHETORIC
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ABBREVIATIONS
- 1 Rhetoric, Reading, and Writing
- 2 The Rhetorical "Kafka
- 3 Acts of Rhetoric
- 4 Two Readings of Reading
- 5 The Rhetoric of Realism
- 6 Reading the Classics
- 7 The Rhetoric of Parable
- 8 The Clothed Body
- 9 Lived Rhetoric
- 10 The Passion of Reading
- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
