Publication: Formen der Ambivalenz - Familienähnlichkeiten bei Grillparzer, Stifter und Kafka

Name of applicant

Birthe Hoffmann

Title

Associate Professor

Institution

University of Copenhagen

Amount

DKK 21,720

Year

2024

Type of grant

Publication

Summary

This book investigates a specific style of thought in the literary works of F. Grillparzer, A. Stifter and F. Kafka as ‘family resemblances’ (Wittgenstein). The prominence of ambivalence and a strategy of negation and reduction in their writing is understood in light of the transcultural context of the Habsburg Empire and as a critical reflection on the pursuit of order in the modern project.

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