Giving Voice to Isaac: The Sacrificial Victim in Kafka's "Trial"
One of the most enigmatic characters in modern literature is Joseph K., in Franz Kafka's The Trial. In this essay I undertake to penetrate the enigma of Joseph K. with the help of René Girard's anthropological analysis of the victim mechanism in human culture. I argue that Kafka offers us...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2004
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Shofar
Year: 2004, Volume: 22, Issue: 2, Pages: 64-84 |
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Girard, René (1923-2015)
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