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Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Kafka the Cultural Icon
Author: Metamorphosis and The Trial (Collins Classics)
Author: Franz KafkaPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008110573
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 303
Book Description
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Kafka: A Very Short Introduction
Author: Ritchie RobertsonPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191577936
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
'When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from troubled dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous insect ...' So begins Franz Kafka's most famous story Metamorphosis. Franz Kafka (1883-1924) is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the twentieth century. During his lifetime he worked as a civil servant and published only a handful of short stories, the best known being The Transformation. All three of his novels, The Trial, The Castle, and The Man Who Disappeared [America], were published after his death and helped to found Kafka's reputation as a uniquely perceptive interpreter of the twentieth century. Kafka's fiction vividly evokes bizarre situations: a commercial traveller is turned into an insect, a banker is arrested by a mysterious court, a fasting artist starves to death in the name of art, a singing mouse becomes the heroine of her nation. Attending both to Kafka's crisis-ridden life and to the subtleties of his art, Ritchie Robertson shows how his work explores such characteristically modern themes as the place of the body in culture, the power of institutions over people, and the possibility of religion after Nietzsche had proclaimed 'the death of God'. The result is an up-to-date and accessible portrait of a fascinating author which shows us ways to read and make sense of his perplexing and absorbing work. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia
Author: Richard T. GrayPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313061424
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Known for depicting alienation, frustration, and the victimization of the individual by impenetrable bureaucracies, Kafka's works have given rise to the term Kafkaesque. This encyclopedia details Kafka's life and writings. Included are more than 800 alphabetically arranged entries on his works, characters, family members and acquaintances, themes, and other topics. Most of the entries cite works for further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography.
France/Kafka
Author: John T. HamiltonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
While his memory languished under Nazi censorship, Franz Kafka covertly circulated through occupied France and soon emerged as a cultural icon, read by the most influential intellectuals of the time as a prophet of the rampant bureaucracy, totalitarian oppression, and absurdity that branded the twentieth century. In tracing the history of Kafka's reception in postwar France, John T. Hamilton explores how the work of a German-Jewish writer from Prague became a modern classic capable of addressing universal themes of the human condition. Hamilton also considers how Kafka's unique literary corpus came to stimulate reflection in diverse movements, critical approaches, and philosophical schools, from surrealism and existentialism through psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and structuralism to Marxism, deconstruction, and feminism. The story of Kafka's afterlife in Paris thus furnishes a key chapter in the unfolding of French theory, which continues to guide how we read literature and understand its relationship to the world.
Icons of the Left
Author: Otto Karl WerckmeisterPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226893556
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
In this book the author offers a critique of Marxist culture in capitalist society. Focusing on some of the most celebrated instances of traditional "Western Marxism," the author shows how such "icons of the Left" have been progressively detached from their political roots in communist activism to the safe distance of utopian or revolutionary speculations.--Publisher's description.
As German as Kafka
Author: Lene RockPublisher: Leuven University Press
ISBN: 9462701784
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Since the turn of the 21st century, countless literary endeavors by 'new Germans' have entered the spotlight of academic research. Yet 'minority writing', with its distinctive renegotiation of traditional concepts of cultural identity, is far from a recent phenomenon in German literature. A hundred years previously, the intense involvement of German-Jewish intellectuals in cultural and political discourses on Jewish identity put a clear stamp on German modernism. This book is the first to unfold literary parallels between these two riveting periods in German cultural history. Drawing on the philosophical oeuvre of Jean-Luc Nancy, a comparative reading of texts by, amongst others, Beer-Hofmann, Kermani, Özdamar, Roth, Schnitzler, and Zaimoglu examines a variety of literary approaches to the thorny issue of cultural identity, while developing an overarching perspective on the ‘politics of literature’.
Franz Kafka in Context
Author: Carolin DuttlingerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107085497
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.
Franz Kafka
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438131089
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
A collection of critical essays on Kafka and his work arranged in chronological order of publication.
The Nightmare of Reason
Author: Ernst PawelPublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 142993333X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
A comprehensive and interpretative biography of Franz Kafka that is both a monumental work of scholarship and a vivid, lively evocation of Kafka's world.