“He Couldn’t Tell the Difference between The Merry Widow and Tristan and Isolde”: Kafka’s Anti-Wagnerian Philosophy of Music
Thisessay exposes an anti-Wagnerian philosophy of music in Franz Kafka’s “Researches of a Dog” and “The Silence of the Sirens.” Themes of music, sound, and silence are overwhelmingly powerful in these stories and cannot be divorced from corporeal and visual aspects. These aspects are arti...
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Institute of Philosophy of the Jagiellonian University
2019-06-01
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Series: | The Polish Journal of Aesthetics |
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Online Access: | https://pjaesthetics.uj.edu.pl/documents/138618288/143289731/pja-53-6-lewit.pdf/99ddfb7e-cf75-4aac-a3e4-b68aa398cd74 |