Ein Landarzt

Author : Richard T. Gray,Ruth V. Gross,Rolf J. Goebel,Clayton Koelb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313061424

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A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia by Richard T. Gray,Ruth V. Gross,Rolf J. Goebel,Clayton Koelb Pdf

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.

Author : Clayton Koelb
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781501745966

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Kafka's Rhetoric by Clayton Koelb Pdf

In the first book to study Franz Kafka from the perspective of modern rhetorical theory, Clayton Koelb explores such questions as how Kafka understood the reading process, how he thematized the problematic of reading, and how his highly distinctive style relates to what Koelb describes as the "passion of reading."

Author : James Rolleston
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571133364

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A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka by James Rolleston Pdf

Kafka's novels and stories fascinate readers and critics of each generation. Although all theories attempt to appropriate Kafka, there is no one key to his work. This work aims to present a point of view while taking account of previous Kafka research.

Author : Daniel L. Medin
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810125674

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Three Sons by Daniel L. Medin Pdf

Franz Kafka was a self-conscious writer whose texts were highly if mysteriously autobiographical. Three giants of contemporary fiction—J. M. Coetzee, Philip Roth, and W. G. Sebald—have all acknowledged their debt to the work of Kafka, both in interviews and in their own academic essays and articles for a general readership about him. In this striking feat of literary scholarship, Daniel Medin finds that the use of Kafka by Coetzee, Roth, and Sebald is similarly self-reflexive and autobiographical. That writers from such divergent national and ethnic traditions can have such unique critical readings of Kafka, and that Kafka could exert such a powerful influence over their oeuvres, Medin contends, attests to the central place of Kafka in the contemporary literary imagination.

Author : Andrew Sutherland
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781527563322

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Children in Opera by Andrew Sutherland Pdf

This book provides a musicological investigation into operas that include children. Just over 100 works have been selected here for an in-depth discussion of the composer, the children, and the productions, and around 250 relevant works from around the world are also referenced. Four composers to have most significantly proliferated the medium are discussed in even greater detail: César Cui, Benjamin Britten, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Peter Maxwell Davies. Since opera began, it has been inextricably linked to society, by reflecting and shaping our culture through music and narrative, and, as a result, children have been involved. Despite the contribution they played, for several centuries, their importance was overlooked. By tracing the development of children’s participation in opera, this book uncovers the changing attitudes of composers towards them, and how this was reflected in the wider society. From the early productions of the seventeenth century, to those of the twenty-first century, the operatic children’s role has undergone a fundamental change. It almost seems that contemporary composers of operas view the inclusion of children in some way as ubiquitous. The rise of the children’s opera chorus and the explosion of children’s-only productions attest to the changing view of the value they can bring to the art. Some of the children to have characterised these roles are discussed in this book in order to redress the disproportionate lack of acknowledgement they often received for their performances.

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780486132631

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The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka Pdf

Excellent new English translations of title story (considered by many critics Kafka's most perfect work), plus "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor," and "A Report to an Academy."

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780486320021

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Best Short Stories by Franz Kafka Pdf

DIVFive great stories in original German with new, literal English translations on facing pages: "The Metamorphosis," "The Judgment," "In the Penal Colony," "A Country Doctor" and "A Report to an Academy." /div

Author : Sarah Roger,Sarah Rachelle Roger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198746157

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Borges and Kafka by Sarah Roger,Sarah Rachelle Roger Pdf

Sarah Roger investigates Jorge Luis Borges's development as an author in light of Franz Kafka's influence, and in consideration of Borges's relationship with his father, Jorge Guillermo Borges (Borges pere, a failed author). Borges believed that much of Kafka's writing derived from his personal experiences, particularly his relationship with his father. This book looks at how reading Kafka helped Borges mediate and make productive use of his own relationship with his father, and it offers a thorough analysis of Borges pere's writing, which is supplemented by an appendix that reprints Borges pere's poetry for the first time. Borges and Kafka also provides extensive analysis of Kafka's presence in Borges's critical writing, his translations, and the stories that he modelled on Kafka. Particular attention is paid to the concepts that Borges identified as Kafka's obsessions: subordination, infinity, and hierarchical relationships, which Borges referred to as the "patria potestad." Roger's analysis is accompanied by an annotated bibliography documenting every mention of Kafka in Borges's writing and a list of every Kafka text Borges read. Kafka's influence is especially evident in the stories where Borges was openly imitating Kafka--"La loteria en Babilonia" (1941), "La biblioteca de Babel" (1941), and "El Congreso" (1971)--but it features throughout Ficciones. Reading Borges's writing in light of his interest in Kafka demonstrates his focus not just on the individual's subordinate place in an infinite hierarchy but also on the repercussions these circumstances had for a struggling author like Borges, who was seeking to define himself through his writing.

Author : Dorrit Claire Cohn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691213125

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Transparent Minds by Dorrit Claire Cohn Pdf

This book investigates the entire spectrum of techniques for portraying the mental lives of fictional characters in both the stream-of-consciousness novel and other fiction. Each chapter deals with one main technique, illustrated from a wide range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century fiction by writers including Stendhal, Dostoevsky, James, Mann, Kafka, Joyce, Proust, Woolf, and Sarraute.

Author : Alexander Mathäs
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781789205640

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Beyond Posthumanism by Alexander Mathäs Pdf

Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities—both in terms of their individual achievements and their collective embodiment of the values that inform modern humanistic inquiry. Taking full account of the manifold challenges that the humanities face today, this volume recasts the question of their viability by tracing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. Through insightful analyses of key texts, Alexander Mathäs mounts a broad defense of the humanistic tradition, emphasizing its pursuit of a universal ethics and ability to render human experiences comprehensible through literary imagination.

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307829450

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The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka Pdf

The complete stories of one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century, the author of The Metamorphosis and The Trial. “An important book, valuable in itself and absolutely fascinating. The stories are dreamlike, allegorical, symbolic, parabolic, grotesque, ritualistic, nasty, lucent, extremely personal, ghoulishly detached, exquisitely comic, numinous, and prophetic.” —The New York Times The Complete Stories brings together all of Kafka’s stories, from the classic tales such as “The Metamorphosis,” “In the Penal Colony,” and “A Hunger Artist” to shorter pieces and fragments that Max Brod, Kafka’s literary executor, released after Kafka’s death. With the exception of his three novels, the whole of Kafka’s narrative work is included in this volume. “[Kafka] spoke for millions in their new unease; a century after his birth, he seems the last holy writer, and the supreme fabulist of modern man’s cosmic predicament.” —from the Foreword by John Updike

Author : Andrea Dortmann
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 303910540X

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Winter Facets by Andrea Dortmann Pdf

Based on a variety of close readings, this book analyzes the use of ice and snow motifs in selected literary, scientific, and philosophical texts by a wide range of European authors from Johannes Kepler to Thomas Mann. The focus of the book is on German literature. While the metaphorical significance of cold imagery has been studied by various scholars, the close relationship between figurations of the cold and writing or reading has so far been overlooked. Compared with other instances of «reading the book of nature», stars or stones for example, the unstable status of snow or ice configurations also renders their literary representation problematic. This inherent tension accounts for the attraction snow and ice have exerted on authors to this day. Particular attention is paid to those texts that negotiate the close rapport between the fragile literary object and the fragile status of language and readability, thus exposing the «fragile legibility» of snow and ice motifs. This focus allows us to address more general issues, such as the shifting status of the aesthetic at the intersection of older natural history and the emergence of modern science; the apocalyptic; and the melancholic implications of cold imagery.

Author : Franz Kafka,Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-11
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9780486120591

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Great Stories by Kafka and Rilke/Meistererzählungen von Kafka und Rilke by Franz Kafka,Rainer Maria Rilke Pdf

At the turn of the twentieth century, the city of Prague hosted a cosmopolitan culture whose literary scene abounded in experimental writers. Two of the city’s natives are featured in this dual-language volume: Franz Kafka, whose fiction is synonymous with the anguish of modern life; and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, whose stories unfold in the same transcendent lyricism as his verse. Twelve of Kafka’s stories from the compilation Ein Landarzt (A Country Doctor) appear here, along with two tales from Ein Hungerkünstler (A Hunger Artist). Rilke's stories include "Die Weise von Liebe und Tod des Cornets Christoph Rilke" (The Ballad of Love and Death of Cornet Christoph Rilke), "Die Turnstunde" (The Gym Class), and Geschichten vom lieben Gott (Stories About the Good Lord). Stanley Appelbaum has provided an introduction and informative notes to these stories, along with excellent new English translations on the pages facing the original German.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004656420

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Literature and Sickness by Anonim Pdf

Author : Franz Kafka
Publisher : Archipelago
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780914671527

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Konundrum by Franz Kafka Pdf

In this new selection and translation, Peter Wortsman mines Franz Kafka's entire opus of short prose--including works published in the author's brief lifetime, posthumously published stories, journals, and letters--for narratives that sound the imaginative depths of the great German-Jewish scribe from Prague. It is the first volume in English to consider his deeply strange, resonantly humane letters and journal entries alongside his classic short fiction and lyrical vignettes "Transformed" is a vivid retranslation of one of Kafka's signature stories, "Die Verwandlung," commonly rendered in English as "The Metamorphosis." Composed of short, black comic parables, fables, fairy tales, and reflections, Konundrums also includes classic stories like "In the Penal Colony," Kafka's prescient foreshadowing of the nightmare of the Twentieth Century, refreshing the writer's mythic storytelling powers for a new generation of readers. Contents: • Words are Miserable Miners of Meaning • Letter to Ernst Rowohlt • Reflections • Concerning Parables • Children on the Country Road • The Spinning Top • The Street-Side Window • At Night • Unhappiness • Clothes Make the Man • On the Inability to Write • From Somewhere in the Middle • I Can Also Laugh • The Need to Be Alone • So I Sat at My Stately Desk • A Writer's Quandary • Give it Up! • Eleven Sons • Paris Outing • The Bridge • The Trees • The Truth About Sancho Pansa • The Silence of the Sirens • Prometheus • Poseidon • The Municipal Coat of Arms • A Message from the Emperor • The Next Village Over • First Sorrow • The Hunger Artist • Josephine, Our Meistersinger, or the Music of Mice • Investigations of a Dog • A Report to an Academy • A Hybrid • Transformed • In the Penal Colony • From The Burrow • Selected Aphorisms • Selected Last Conversation Shreds • In the Caves of the Unconscious: K is for Kafka (An Afterword) • The Back of Words (A Post Script) From the Trade Paperback edition.