Rastalsky, Hartmut M.
No Exit? Hegemony and Hopelessness in Kafka, Beckett, and Handke
Ph.D. Dissertation.
: University of Michigan, 1997, 230 p.
«This dissertation combines a discussion of the concept of hegemony developed by Antonio Gramsci and Raymond Williams with readings of Kafka's "Der Prozess" (1925) and "Das Schloss" (1926), Beckett's trilogy "Malloy" (1951/1955), "Malone Dies" (1951/1956), and "The Unnamable" (1953/1958), and Handke's early novels "Die Angst des Tormanns beim Elfmeter" (1970) and "Die Stunde der Wahren Empfindung" (1975), in order to let the concept and the novels illuminate each other, showing on the one hand that these novels are much more hopeful than the grotesque predicaments of their protagonists suggest, and observing on theother hand how the novels productively concretize the problems and possibilities outlined by Gramsci and Williams... In particular, the novels concretize Gramsci's and Williams' assertions of the fundamental role of language in producing hegemonic common sense....».
| Language | eng |
| Names |
[author] Rastalsky, Hartmut M. |
| Subjects |
Letteratura Novecento
Kafka, Franz Beckett, Samuel Handke, Peter Egemonia Senso Comune
Literature 20th century
Kafka, Franz Beckett, Samuel Handke, Peter Hegemony Common sense |
