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Author:

Geddes, Jennifer L., author.

Title:

Kafka's ethics of interpretation : between tyranny and despair / Jennifer L. Geddes.

Publisher:

Northwestern University Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

viii, 165 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Kafka, Franz,--1883-1924--Criticism and interpretation.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Virginia, 1999. Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-162) and index.

Contents:

The tyranny of simplicity and the fantasy of completion : Kafka's "Letter to his father" and Freud's Interpretation of dreams -- The power of interpretation and the interpretation of power : Kafka's "The judgment" and Bourdieu's Social theory -- The virtue of hesitation and the temptation of resolution : Kafka's "The metamorphosis" and Todorov's Fantastic -- The ethics of attention and the meaning of pain : Kafka's "In the penal colony" and Levinas's "Useless suffering."

ISBN:

0810132907
9780810132900
0810132893
9780810132894

OCLC:

(OCoLC)920966356

LCCN:

2015034917

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)