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“Mit Josefine Muss Es Abwärts Gehen”: Making Audible The Conflicted Narrator Of Kafka’S “Josefine”, Kamil Alexander Karpiak
“Mit Josefine Muss Es Abwärts Gehen”: Making Audible The Conflicted Narrator Of Kafka’S “Josefine”, Kamil Alexander Karpiak
Senior Projects Fall 2023
Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College.
„Kopfschmerzen, Familiensorgen": Urszenen-Konfigurationen, Psychotherapie-Parodie Und Sublimierungspraktiken In Kafkas "Proceß", Anna Lynn Dolman
„Kopfschmerzen, Familiensorgen": Urszenen-Konfigurationen, Psychotherapie-Parodie Und Sublimierungspraktiken In Kafkas "Proceß", Anna Lynn Dolman
Arts & Sciences Electronic Theses and Dissertations
The thesis presents a re-reading of Kafka's novel "The Trial" against the background of Kafka's negotiation of Freudian psychoanalysis. Rather than merely employing the Freudian framework as a hermeneutic tool, the thesis argues that Kafka constructs his novel along the lines of psychoanalytic theories while simultaneously attempting to deconstruct them and question the effectiveness of the so-called talking cure by means of ironically subverting a therapeutic configuration. The starting point of the thesis centers on an oftentimes overlooked scene at the very beginning of the novel, arguing that the voyeuristic old couple across the street from K. demonstrate that the …
The Mechanics Of Franz Kafka's 'In Der Strafkolonie': A Reading Through Verbal Associations, Charles Beck Cochran
The Mechanics Of Franz Kafka's 'In Der Strafkolonie': A Reading Through Verbal Associations, Charles Beck Cochran
Masters Theses
Theoretically based in a Judaic philosophy and in Kafka’s related mythology, which locates the origins of the world in language, this thesis takes its practical starting point from a relatively little-documented writing method of Kafka that appears inseparably linked to his language mythology. This writing method is one in which Kafka developed the fictional world of his narratives out of language or associations in language. In a unique attempt to document its full impact on the development of a literary text, the thesis seeks to utilize this writing method as a reading method, identifying the verbal associations from which Kafka …
Kafka On Trial: Polysemy And Epistemological Enactment In Modern Literature, Michael Chew
Kafka On Trial: Polysemy And Epistemological Enactment In Modern Literature, Michael Chew
Senior Projects Spring 2012
Examination of shortcoming and merits of polysemic language in Modern Literature (Fishhouse)