Description: Kafka and Noise applies concepts from film theory and sound studies to explore noises in Kafka's writings--from Gregor Samsa's squeaking and Josefine the mouse singer's whistling to the terror of spoken Yiddish and the thrill of literary recitation.--Provided by publisher.
Review Quotes: "Impeccably argued and thoroughly researched, this book offers a series of original and incisive perspectives on Kafka's work in general, the role of sound and noise in Kafka's writing, and the coming of sound to twentieth-century literature. It will clearly add important new scholarship to the field of Kafka research, as well as a masterly contribution to the growing writing on Kafka's and other modernist writers' relationships to cinema and modern media culture." --Lutz Koepnick, author of The Long Take: Art Cinema and the Wondrous