Session Details

Wednesday, 29 December

391. Kafka and Music: The Theme of Music in Kafka’s Texts

10:15–11:30 a.m., Washington B, Loews

Program arranged by the Kafka Society of America

Presiding: Marie Luise Caputo-Mayr, Temple Univ.

1. “‘Musikwissenschaft’: Kafka’s Sounds of Silence,” Iris Bruce, McMaster Univ.

2. “Josephine’s Songs and the Role of Music in Kafka,” Walter Herbert Sokel, Univ. of Virginia

3. “Kafka and the Several Senses of Music,” Stanley Alan Corngold, Princeton Univ.

4. “‘Ist das Spiel vielleicht unangenehm?’: Musical Disturbances and Acoustic Space in Kafka,” John Thomas Hamilton, Harvard Univ.

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