Kafkas Stereoscopes The Political Function Of A Literary Style Isak Winkel Holm by Isak Winkel Holm 9781501347825, 9781501347856, 1501347829, 1501347853 instant download after payment.

In 1911, Franz Kafka encountered the Kaiser Panorama: a stereoscopic peep show offering an illusion of three-dimensional depth. After the experience, he began to emulate the apparatus in his literary sketches, developing a style we might call “stereoscopic,” juxtaposing, like the optical stereoscope, two images of the same object seen from slightly different perspectives.
Isak Winkel Holm argues that Kafka’s stereoscopic style is crucial to an understanding of the relation between literature and politics in Kafka’s work. At the level of content, the stereoscopic style offers a representation of the basic order of a specific community. At the level of form, the stereoscopic style is structured as the juxtaposition of two dissimilar images of the same community. At the level of function, finally, the style provokes a reconsideration, and perhaps even a reconfiguration, of the social order itself.
In 1911, Franz Kafka encountered the Kaiserpanorama: a stereoscopic peep show offering an illusion of three-dimensional depth. After the experience, he began to emulate the apparatus’ setup in his literary sketches, developing a style we might call “stereoscopic,” juxtaposing, like the optical stereoscope, two images of the same object seen from slightly different perspectives.
In Kafka’s Stereoscopes, Isak Winkel Holm shows that this doubled vision is crucial to an understanding of the relation between literature and politics in Kafka’s work. He maps this particular intersection of literature and politics by proposing three theses concerning the content, form and function of Kafka’s stereoscopic style.
At the level of content, the stereoscopic style offers a representation of the configuration of a specific community. At the level of form, the setup of the stereoscopic style is a juxtaposition of two images of the same community, respectively an orderly and a disorderly image. At the level of function, finally, the style provokes a reconfiguration of the social order itself.
Put simply, Winkel Holm explores the manner in which Kafka constructs his literary works as binocular apparatus serving to call forth political thinking. With insights from literary studies, philosophical aesthetics and political philosophy, Kafka’s Stereoscopes offers a detailed but highly readable argument for the relevance of Kafka’s literary works in today’s political reality.