{"product_id":"lambent-traces-9780691127804","title":"Lambent Traces","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story \"The Judgment,\" which came out of him \"like a regular birth.\"  This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. This title traces the implications of Kafka's literary breakthrough.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most compelling and instructive books on Kafka to appear in recent years.\"--Choice \"Readers of Lambent Traces will find themselves enraptured by Corngold's masterful explication of Kafka writing in ecstasy. This provocative work will constitute an exhilarating reading for literary scholars in general and Kafka scholars in particular.\"--David D. Kim, Focus on German Studies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface xi  Abbreviations for Kafka Citations xvii  Introduction: Beginnings 1  Chapter 1  In the Circle of \"The Judgment\" 13  Chapter 2  The Trial: The Guilt of an Unredeemed Literary Promise 37  Segue I  On Cultural Immortality 45  Chapter 3  Medial Interferences in The Trial 51  Or, res in Media  Chapter 4  Allotria and Excreta in \"In the Penal Colony\" 67  Segue II  Death and the Medium 81  Chapter 5  Nietzsche, Kafka, and Literary Paternity 94  Chapter 6  Something to Do with the Truth 111  Kafka's Later Stories  Chapter 7  \"A Faith Like a Guillotine\" 126  Kafka on Skepticism  Chapter 8  Kafka and the Dialect of Minor Literature 142  Chapter 9  Adorno's \"Notes on Kafka\" 158  A Critical Reconstruction  Chapter 10  On Translation Mistakes, with Special Attention to Kafka in Amerika 176  Chapter 11  The Trouble with Cultural Studies 194  Notes 205  Acknowledgments 253  Index 255","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403744747863,"sku":"9780691127804","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691127804.jpg?v=1730484422","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lambent-traces-9780691127804","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}