| 题名: | Horizontality and impossibility in Kafkfka's parabolic quests |
| 作者: | Stevenson, Frank W. |
| 贡献者: | 英國語文學系 |
| 日期: | 2012-12 |
| 上传时间: | 2023-06-07 14:28:03 (UTC+8) |
| 摘要: | In his article "Horizontality and Impossibility in Kafka's Parabolic Quests" Frank W. Stevenson explores a horizontal-parabolic interpretation of several Kafka narratives. The key idea is that the meaning/truth of a parable is being thrown-beside-itself "on the horizontal": thus it is impossible not only to vertically reach any higher meaning/truth but even to "cross-over" to a truth which has now been horizontally "displaced." Noting that Derrida's and Agamben's reading of "Before the Law" - the narrator cannot "enter into the Law" because the latter "prescribes nothing," is nothing but an "opening" - not only excludes any vertical-hierarchical dimension but even any horizontal "entrance," Stevenson suggests that this impossibility of "entering into the open" is represented indirectly by the figure of a geometric parabola whose two curving sides continually "open out" without ever "reaching.". |
| 關聯: | CLCWeb - Comparative Literature and Culture開放取用卷 14, 期 5 December 2012 |
| 显示于类别: | [Department of English Language and Literature ] journal articles
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