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Metaphormosis: The Machinic Metaphor in Kafkian Animal Stories [PDF]
The Polish Journal of Aesthetics, 2019 In my paper, I discuss the Deleuzian reading of Franz Kafka. I argue that Deleuze perceives Kafka’s works through the prism of his own criticism of metaphor and that in this case one cannot dismiss the use of metaphorical language as Deleuze and ...
Katarzyna Szafranowska
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A Case for Contingent Absurdity
European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 1, Page 266-280, March 2026.Abstract A popular view on existential absurdity holds that if life is absurd, it must be inescapably so. In opposition to this view, I argue that the concept of existential absurdity allows for life to be contingently absurd. In Nausea (1938) and Being and Nothingness (1943), Jean‐Paul Sartre puts forward two distinct conceptions of an absurd life ...
Thom Hamer
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INSECT LIFE AND LETTERS: THE STUDIES OF HANNS HEINZ EWERS AND OTTO AND ROSE HECHT
German Life and Letters, Volume 78, Issue 3, Page 342-363, July 2025.ABSTRACT This article argues that vast histories of war and displacement in the twentieth century are connected to the small and almost unnoticeable lives of insects, and that philology has much to gain from paying attention to insect worlds. We examine two case studies: the work of the German entomologist Otto Hecht and his wife, Rose Caro Hecht, and ...
Alice Christensen, Ina Linge
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Jorge Luis Borges' Medieval Aesthetics of Failure
Critical Quarterly, EarlyView.
Irina Dumitrescu
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PTSI: A Person × Task × Situation Interaction Theory of Creativity
The Journal of Creative Behavior, Volume 59, Issue 2, June 2025.ABSTRACT This article presents the PTSI (Person × Task × Situation Interaction) theory of creativity. The theory deals with the creative person, the deployment of creativity in tasks, the ecological context in which this deployment takes place, and the types of creative products that result. The theory draws upon a wide range of previous work.
Robert J. Sternberg
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Valenciana, 2019 El objetivo de este artículo es identificar en la escritura/lectura de Franz Kafka, a partir de El Castillo, la intersección entre la problemática de la crisis de la tradición, planteada por Walter Benjamin y Gershom Scholem, y la textualización de la ...
Jefferson Eduardo da Paz Barbosa
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Metamorphosen: Stefan Zweigs Rausch der Verwandlung, ein soziales Experiment
The German Quarterly, Volume 98, Issue 3, Page 191-208, Summer 2025.Abstract Nach dem kürzlich vergangenen Kafka‐Jahr 2024 gewinnt das Thema der Metamorphose an neuer Aktualität. Der Begriff der Metamorphose wird nach Ovids Metamorphosen (8 v. Chr.) spontan mit Kafkas Werk Die Verwandlung (1912) verbunden. Während diese beiden Werke die Verwandlung auf Äußerliches beschränken, liegt das Interesse von Zweigs Rausch der ...
Alexandra Juster
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Theodor Adorno e a problema do “fim da individuação” na obra de Franz Kafka
Artefilosofia, 2017 O artigo trata da análise de Theodor Adorno sobre a obra de Franz Kafka. Elegemos, entre os vários temas tratados por Adorno na obra de Kafka, o problema do “fim da individuação” na sociedade contemporânea.
Sara Juliana Pozzer da Silveira
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Veterinary Medicine and Science, Volume 11, Issue 2, March 2025.Control and HRW groups were housed in 20 × 30 × 45 cages. Stress and stress + HRW groups were housed in 20 × 15 × 45 cages. Weekly weight weighing was done. After 3 months, the animals were terminated, and the results were evaluated by biochemical and histopathological analyses.
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[Reseña] A propósito de los cien años de La Metamorfosis, de Franz Kafka
Ciencias Sociales y Educación, 2015 Preguntas a escritores, artistas, poetas y profesores sobre La metamorfosis, de Franz Kafka 1. ¿Cuándo, cómo y por qué leyó inicialmente La metamorfosis de Kafka y que le causó en ese momento su lectura y por qué? 2.
Óscar Jairo González Hernández
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