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.