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Jean-Paul Sartre. Situations III Universiteit Antwerpen
Sartre, Kafka and the universality of the literary work Universiteit Antwerpen
French existentialism is commonly regarded as the main impetus for the universal significance that Kafka gained in postwar France. A leading critic, Marthe Robert, has contended that this entailed an outright rejection of interest in the biographical, linguistic and historical dimension of Kafka's writing in order to interpret it as a general expression of the human condition. This article will consider this claim in the light of Sartre's ...
The postmodern challenge to journalism Universiteit Antwerpen
De representatie van de filosoof in documentaire films Universiteit Antwerpen
K. as "confessional hero" Universiteit Antwerpen
Despite the existence of a Foucauldian research tradition in Kafka scholarship, its central tenets (power, subjectivity, and space) have seldom been brought together in readings of Kafka's The Trial. This article proposes to read Kafka's novel as a coherent reflection on the nature of disciplinary power in modern society, whose hero, K., can be regarded as a confessional animal engaging in the most elaborate acts of self-examination. This ...
On the performativity of journalistic identity Universiteit Antwerpen
The concept of ritual has played an important role in research within mass media and journalism studies in the last decades. Both ethnographic and anthropological research in media studies has devoted attention to an elaboration of its theoretical scope. However, as this paper argues, reading the concept in the perspective of Butler's theory of performativity can considerably deepen our understanding of the relation between rituals and ...