TY  - JOUR
A1  - Weninger, Robert
T1  - Sounding out the silence of Gregor Samsa : Kafka's rhetoric of dys-communication
T2  - Studies in twentieth century literature
N2  - The reading of Kafka's "Metamorphosis" that I propose on the following pages is based on two assumptions that are derived from widely divergent approaches to Kafka's writings. The first is the offspring of psychological interpretation and recognizes that homologous unconscious strategies are operative in the "Letter to his father" and Kafka's tale. Josef Rattner, writing about the "Ur-Situationen", the "primal situations" that Kafka experienced as a child and which produced in him his most basic psychological attitudes (Rattner calls them Grundhaltungen), concludes: "Kafka's life is an incessant attempt to cope with his father-experience. His father is at the base of his anxiety of life and his crippling hypochondria. … Sadism and masochism are distinctive features of Kafka's works."
KW  - Kafka, Franz
KW  - Die Verwandlung <Werk>
KW  - Samsa, Gregor <Literarische Gestalt>
KW  - Brief an den Vater <Werk>
KW  - Missverständnis <Motiv>
Y1  - 2015
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/36450
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-364504
SN  - 0145-7888
VL  - 17
IS  - 2
SP  - 263
EP  - 286
PB  - New Prairie Press
CY  - Manhattan, Kan.
ER  -