The Myth of Power and the Self : Essays on Franz Kafka

Walter H. Sokel

ISBN 10: 0814326080 / ISBN 13: 9780814326084

Published by Wayne State University Press Jun 2001, 2001

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Neuware - Franz Kafka (1883-1924) has come to be one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. The Myth of Power and the Self brings together Walter Sokel's most significant essays on Kafka written over a period of thirty-one years, 1966-1997. This volume begins with a discussion of Sokel's 1966 pamphlet on Kafka and a summary of his 1964 book, Tragik und Ironie (Tragedy and Irony), which has never been translated into English, and includes several essays published in English for the first time. Sokel places Kafka's writings in a very large cultural context by fusing Freudian and Expressionist perspectives and incorporating more theoretical approaches-linguistic theory, Gnosticism, and aspects of Derrida-into his synthesis. This superb collection of essays by one of the most qualified Kafka scholars today will bring new understanding to Kafka's work and will be of interest to literary critics, intellectual historians, and students and scholars of German literature and Kafka.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Myth of Power and the Self : Essays on Franz Kafka
• Publisher: Wayne State University Press Jun 2001
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814326080
• ISBN 13: 9780814326084
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 237W x 162H x 26D millimeters 237 millimeters width by 162 millimeters height by 26 millimeters depth
• Weight: 610 grams

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Synopsis

The Myth of Power and the Self brings together Walter Sokel's most significant essays on Kafka written over a period of thirty-one years, 1966-1997.

About the Author

Walter H. Sokel is Commonwealth Emeritus Professor of German and English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of The Writer in Extremis: Expressionism in Twentieth-Century German Literature (Stanford University Press, 1959), Franz Kafka: Tragik und Ironie (Langen-Muller, 1964), Franz Kafka: Columbia Essays on Modern Writers (Columbia University Press, 1966), and Prelude to the Absurd: An Anthology of German Expressionist Drama (Doubleday/Anchor Books, 1963).