This is the first book about Kafka that uses the writer's medical records. Gillman explores the relation of the body to cultural myths, and brings a unique and fascinating perspective to Kafka's life and writings.
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In this sometimes rambling psychohistory of anti-Semitism in fin-de-siecle Europe, Gillman, president-elect of the Modern Language Association, implies that internalized Jewish emasculation, as seen in Kafka, and the shattering of the new, fragile trust in the rule of law caused by the Dreyfus affair were among the antecedents of the rise of Nazism. Kafka internalized the notion, firmly implanted in the European mind, of the Jew as a sick body. Kafka's own tuberculosis even fit the theory?later tested in death-camp experiments?that physical inferiority rendered Jews unable to resist that disease. Examined in the light of Kafka's own medical records, many of his stories, like "In the Penal Colony," reflect this idea of the Jewish body testifying to its own unworthiness. Documentation, including illustrations from popular magazines, is abundant in Gillman's work. Unfortunately, so is psychobabble?which often recasts logical contradiction as disguised affirmation. Recommended for specialists.?Alan Cooper, York Coll., CUNY
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With this book, I want to return to the long fin de siecle, that age that begins self-consciously in the final decades of the nineteenth century and ends in the trenches ,of World War I. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
inflation weighting, war yrs, medical holiday, habitus phthisicus, irregular holiday, racial predestination, esteemed director, blood libel trials, supposed immunity, ritual murder trial, ritual slaughter, racial predisposition, chest circumference, insurance institute, temporary retirement, head secretary, imagined body, medical considerations, bovine tuberculosis, minor literature, tubercular patient, administrative commission, torture machine, administrative board, hunger artist Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Thomas Mann, Alfred Dreyfus, World War, European Jews, Devil's Island, Mirror of His Culture, Robert Koch, Felice Bauer, Maurice Fishberg, United States, Arnold Zweig, Moritz Scharf, National Library of Medicine, Oxford University Press, Cornell University, Free Press, Mark Anderson, New Haven, Yale University Press, Clarendon Press, Gregor Samsa, Hannah Arendt New!
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inflation weighting, war yrs, medical holiday, habitus phthisicus, irregular holiday, racial predestination, esteemed director, blood libel trials, supposed immunity, ritual murder trial, ritual slaughter, racial predisposition, chest circumference, insurance institute, temporary retirement, head secretary, imagined body, medical considerations, bovine tuberculosis, minor literature, tubercular patient, administrative commission, torture machine, administrative board, hunger artist Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Franz Kafka, Max Brod, Thomas Mann, Alfred Dreyfus, World War, European Jews, Devil's Island, Mirror of His Culture, Robert Koch, Felice Bauer, Maurice Fishberg, United States, Arnold Zweig, Moritz Scharf, National Library of Medicine, Oxford University Press, Cornell University, Free Press, Mark Anderson, New Haven, Yale University Press, Clarendon Press, Gregor Samsa, Hannah Arendt New!
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- The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka on 10 pages
- The Diaries of Frank Kafka 1910 - 1913 by Max (editor) Brod on 9 pages
- The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann on 7 pages
- A Hunger Artist (Short Prose of Franz Kafka Series) by Franz Kafka on 5 pages
- Daniel Deronda (Oxford World's Classics) by George Eliot on page 172, page 173, and page 307
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- The Dreyfus Affair and the Crisis of French Manhood (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science) by Christopher E. Forth in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Gravity Fails: The Comic Jewish Shaping of Modern America by James D. Bloom on page 98, and Back Matter
- The Trial: A New Translation Based on the Restored Text by Franz Kafka in Back Matter
- The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language and Culture by Ruth R. Wisse in Back Matter
- Transatlantic Modernism: Moral Dilemmas in Modernist Fiction by Martin Halliwell in Back Matter
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