Sounding out the silence of Gregor Samsa : Kafka's rhetoric of dys-communication
- 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."
| Author: | Robert Weninger |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-364504 |
| ISSN: | 0145-7888 |
| Parent Title (English): | Studies in twentieth century literature |
| Publisher: | New Prairie Press |
| Place of publication: | Manhattan, Kan. |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2015/01/08 |
| Year of first Publication: | 1993 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2015/01/08 |
| GND Keyword: | Kafka, Franz; Die Verwandlung <Werk>; Samsa, Gregor <Literarische Gestalt>; Brief an den Vater <Werk>; Missverständnis <Motiv> |
| Volume: | 17 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Page Number: | 14 |
| First Page: | 263 |
| Last Page: | 286 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 367488493 |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 83 Deutsche und verwandte Literaturen / 830 Literaturen germanischer Sprachen; Deutsche Literatur |
| BDSL-Klassifikation: | 16.00.00 Jahrhundertwende (1880-1914) / BDSL-Klassifikation: 16.00.00 Jahrhundertwende (1880-1914) > 16.15.00 Zu einzelnen Autoren |
| 16.00.00 Jahrhundertwende (1880-1914) / BDSL-Klassifikation: 16.00.00 Jahrhundertwende (1880-1914) > 16.08.00 Literarisches Leben | |
| Sammlungen: | Germanistik / GindokWeimar |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
