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Lecture by Stanley Corngold: 'Aphoristic Form in Nietzsche and Kafka with an Aside from Inside Baseball'
Date
Wed January 28th 2009, 6:00pm
Stanley Corngold is Professor of German Studies and
Comparative
Literature at Princeton University. He has written
extensively on a wide
range of subjects in modern German
literature, intellectual history,
and literary theory. His
numerous books include The Fate of the Self:
German Writers and
French Theory; Franz Kafka: The Necessity of Form;
Borrowed
Lives; Complex Pleasure: Forms of Feeling in German
Literature;
and Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka. He has translated and
edited the
Norton Critical Edition of Kafka's "The
Metamorphosis" and of
Kafka's Selected Stories, as well
as editing the recently published
volume "Franz Kafka:
The Office Writings." He is a faculty associate at
the
program in Law and Public Affairs at Princeton and has held
appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton and
the
Internationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwisssenschaften in
Vienna.
Location: German Studies library, 260-252