A Report to an Academy
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Film Studies
Film Theory
Franz Kafka
Gesture
Implied Sound
Intermediality
Investigations of a Dog
Josefine
Lecture on the Yiddish Language
Literary Criticism
Literary Studies
Literature
Media
Metalepsis
Modernism
Modernist Studies
Noise
Non-diegetic sound
Plagiarism
Recitation
Silence
Silent Film
Sound
Sound Studies
Species Transcendence
Speech
Technology
Telephones
The Burrow
The Castle
The Metamorphosis
The Silence of the Sirens
the Singer or the Mouse People
Transmediality
Ventriloquism
Visualized Sound
Voice
Product details
- ISBN 9780810138940
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 162 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2019
- Publisher: Northwestern University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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A series of disruptive, unnerving sounds haunts the fictional writings of Franz Kafka. These include the painful squeak in Gregor Samsa's voice, the indeterminate whistling of Josefine the singer, the relentless noise in ""The Burrow,"" and telephonic disturbances in The Castle. In Kafka and Noise, Kata Gellen applies concepts and vocabulary from film theory to Kafka's works in order to account for these unsettling sounds. Rather than try to decode these noises, Gellen explores the complex role they play in Kafka's larger project.
Kafka and Noise offers a method for pursuing intermedial research in the humanities—namely, via the productive ""misapplication"" of theoretical tools, which exposes the contours, conditions, and expressive possibilities of the media in question. This book will be of interest to scholars of modernism, literature, cinema, and sound, as well as to anyone wishing to explore how artistic and technological media shape our experience of the world and the possibilities for representing it.
Kafka and Noise offers a method for pursuing intermedial research in the humanities—namely, via the productive ""misapplication"" of theoretical tools, which exposes the contours, conditions, and expressive possibilities of the media in question. This book will be of interest to scholars of modernism, literature, cinema, and sound, as well as to anyone wishing to explore how artistic and technological media shape our experience of the world and the possibilities for representing it.
Kata Gellen is an assistant professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literature at Duke University.
