TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schuman,Rebecca
TI  - Kafka and Wittgenstein: The Case for an Analytic Modernism 
SN  - 9780810131460
PB  - Northwestern University Press
KW  - Literary Criticism / European / German
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - In Kafka and Wittgenstein, Rebecca Schuman undertakes the first ever book-length scholarly examination of Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of language alongside Franz Kafka's prose fiction. In groundbreaking readings, she argues that although many readers of Kafka are searching for what his texts mean, in this search we are sorely mistaken. Instead, the problems and illusions we portend to uncover, the important questions we attempt to answer-Is Josef K. guilty? If so, of what? What does Gregor Samsa's transformed body mean? Is Land-Surveyor K. a real land surveyor?- themselves presuppose a bigger delusion: that such questions can be asked in the first place. Drawing deeply on the entire range of Wittgenstein's writings, Schuman cannily sheds new light on the enigmatic Kafka
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/13d389c3-6aae-4059-b7dc-5d06c27f4243
ER  -