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Corngold, Stanley Alan was born on June 11, 1934, in Brooklyn. Son of Herman and Estelle (Bramson) Corngold.
( Complex Pleasure deals with questions of literary feeli...)
Complex Pleasure deals with questions of literary feeling in eight major German writers—Lessing, Kant, Hölderlin, Nietzsche, Musil, Kafka, Trakl, and Benjamin. On the basis of close readings of these authors Stanley Corngold makes vivid the following ideas: that where there is literature there is complex pleasure; that this pleasure is complex because it involves the impression of a disclosure; that this thought is foremost in the minds of a number of canonical writers; that important literary works in the German tradition—fiction, poetry, critique—can be illuminated through their treatment of literary feeling; and, finally, that the conceptual terms for these forms of feeling continually vary. The types of feeling treated in Complex Pleasure include wit (the startling perception of likeness) and the disinterested pleasure of aesthetic judgment; Hölderlin's "swift conceptual grasp," in which "the tempo of the process of thought is stressed"; "artistic imagination," mood, sadistic enjoyment, rapturous distraction, homonymic dissonance, and courage as a mode of literary experience. At the same time, through the deftness, range, and surprise of its execution, the book itself conveys complex pleasure. The reader will also find fascinating, hitherto untranslated material by Nietzsche ("On Moods") and Kafka (important sections from his journals and from his unfinished novel The Boy Who Sank Out of Sight).
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( Much recent critical theory has dismissed or failed to ...)
Much recent critical theory has dismissed or failed to take seriously the question of the self. French theorists—such as Derrida, Barthes, Benveniste, Foucault, Lacan, and Lévi-Strauss—have in various ways proclaimed the death of the subject, often turning to German intellectual tradition to authorize their views. Stanley Corngold’s heralded book, The Fate of the Self, published for the first time in paperback with a spirited new preface, appears at a time when the relationship between the self and literature is a matter of renewed concern. Originally published in 1986 (Columbia University Press), the book examines the poetic self of German intellectual tradition in light of recent French and American critical theory. Focusing on seven major German writers—Hölderlin, Dilthey, Nietzsche, Mann, Kafka, Freud, and Heidegger—Corngold shows that their work does not support the desire to discredit the self as an origin of meaning and value but reconstructs the allegedly fragmented poetic self through effects of position and style. Offering new and subtle models of selfhood, The Fate of the Self is a source of rich insight into the work of these authors, refracted through poststructuralist critical perspectives.
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( On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote h...)
On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story "The Judgment," which came out of him "like a regular birth." This act of creation struck him as an unmistakable sign of his literary destiny. Thereafter, the search of many of his characters for the Law, for a home, for artistic fulfillment can be understood as a figure for Kafka's own search to reproduce the ecstasy of a single night. In Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka, the preeminent American critic and translator of Franz Kafka traces the implications of Kafka's literary breakthrough. Kafka's first concern was not his responsibility to his culture but to his fate as literature, which he pursued by exploring "the limits of the human." At the same time, he kept his transcendental longings sober by noting--with incomparable irony--their virtual impossibility. At times Kafka's passion for personal transcendence as a writer entered into a torturous and witty conflict with his desire for another sort of transcendence, one driven by a modern Gnosticism. This struggle prompted him continually to scrutinize different kinds of mediation, such as confessional writing, the dream, the media, the idea of marriage, skepticism, asceticism, and the imitation of death. Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka concludes with a reconstruction and critique of the approaches to Kafka by such major critics as Adorno, Gilman, and Deleuze and Guattari..
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(Paperback. Author: Stanley Corngold. Comparative Literatu...)
Paperback. Author: Stanley Corngold. Comparative Literature. 1988. Career, Context, and Excurus on Method. 320 pages. By Cornell University Press.
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writer German and comparative literature educator
Corngold, Stanley Alan was born on June 11, 1934, in Brooklyn. Son of Herman and Estelle (Bramson) Corngold.
AB, Columbia University, 1957. Postgraduate, School Oriental and African Studies-U. London, 1958. Master of Arts, Cornell University, 1963.
Doctor of Philosophy, Cornell University, 1969. Postgraduate, University Basel, Switzerland, 1966.
Instructor English University Maryland European division, 1959-1962. Teaching assistant English Cornell University, 1963-1964. Teaching assistant French Cornell U, 1964-1965.
Assistant professor German Princeton University, 1966-1972, associate professor, 1972-1979, associate professor German and comparative literature, 1979-1981, professor, since 1981, director graduate studies department German, 1979-1982, 85, 93-95, 96-97. Visiting professor Institute Advanced Study, Princeton, 2003—2004. Distinguished visiting scholar McMaster University, 2003.
Adjunct professor law Columbia University, 2006—2007. Visiting fellow King's College, Cambridge, England, 2009. Halls fellow University Wisconsin, 2010.
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Served with United States Army, 1955-1957. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Modern Language Association (executive committee division on philosophical approaches to literature 1993-1997, past chair, public committee 1993-1995), Academy Literature Studies, North America Nietzsche Society, Kafka Society of America (past president), Heidelberg Club Internat, Princeton-Oxford-Humboldt Kafka Consortium (organizer since 2009), Oxford Kafka Research Center (international advisory board 2008), Fellow: American Academy Berlin.
Married Marie Josephine Brettle, July 29, 1961 (divorced May 1969). 1 child, Isabel Anna. Married Regine Schmidt-Üllner, February 18, 1995.