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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : IND:30000111200584
Author : Dagmar C. G. Lorenz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : German fiction
ISBN : OCLC:953957925
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCSC:32106019195673
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005389494
Author : J. Zilcosky
Publisher : Springer
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137076373
In 1916, Kafka writes of The Sugar Baron , a dime-store colonial adventure novel, '[it] affects me so deeply that I feel it is about myself, or as if it were the book of rules for my life.' John Zilcosky reveals that this perhaps surprising statement - made by the Prague-bound poet of modern isolation - is part of a network of remarks that exemplify Kafka's ongoing preoccupation with popular travel writing, exoticism, and colonial fantasy. Taking this biographical peculiarity as a starting point, Kafka's Travels elegantly re-reads Kafka's major works ( Amerika , The Trial , The Castle ) through the lens of fin-de siecle travel culture. Making use of previously unexplored literary and cultural materials - travel diaries, train schedules, tour guides, adventure novels - Zilcosky argues that Kafka's uniquely modern metaphorics of alienation emerges out of the author's complex encounter with the utopian travel discourses of his day.
Author : Richard T. Gray,Ruth V. Gross,Rolf J. Goebel,Clayton Koelb
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313061424
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 : Shai Biderman,Ido Lewit
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231850896
The idea of a visual manifestation of the work of Franz Kafka was denied by many—first and foremost by Kafka himself, who famously urged his publisher to avoid an image of an insect on the cover of Metamorphosis. Be that as it may, it is unlikely that such a central progenitor of twentieth-century art and thought as Kafka can be fully understood without reference to the revolutionary artistic medium of his century: cinema. Mediamorphosis compiles articles by some of today's leading forces in the scholarship of Kafka as well as film studies to provide a thorough investigation of the reciprocal relations between Kafka's work and the cinematic medium. The volume approaches the theoretical integration of Kafka and cinema via such issues as the cinematic qualities in Kafka's prose and the possibility of a visual manifestation of the Kafkaesque. Alongside these debates, the book investigates the capacity of cinema to incorporate and express the unique qualities of a Kafkaesque world through an analysis of cinematic adaptations of Kafka's prose, such as Michael Haneke's The Castle (1997) and Straub-Huillet's Class Relations (1984), as well as films that carry a more subtle relation to Kafka's oeuvre, such as the cinematic works of David Cronenberg, the films of the Coen brothers, Chris Marker's "film-essay," Charlie Chaplin's tramp, and others.
Author : Despiniadis Costas Despiniadis
Publisher : Black Rose Books Ltd.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781551646862
Few twentieth-century writers remain as potent as Franz Kafka-one of the rare figures to maintain both a major presence in the academy and on the shelves of general readers. Yet, remarkably, no work has yet fully focused on his politics and anti-authoritarian sensibilities. The Anatomist of Power: Franz Kafka and the Critique of Authority is a fascinating new look at his widely known novels and stories (including The Trial, Metamorphosis, In the Penal Colony and Amerika), portraying him as a powerful critic of authority, bureaucracy, capitalism, law, patriarchy, and prisons. Making deft use of Kafka's diaries, his friends' memoirs, and his original sketches, Costas Despiniadis addresses his active participation in Prague's anarchist circles, his wide interest in anarchist authors, his skepticism about the Russian Revolution, and his ambivalent relationship with utopian Zionism. The portrait of Kafka that emerges is striking and fresh-rife with insights and a refusal to accept the structures of power that dominated his society.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781438131085
A collection of critical essays on Kafka and his work arranged in chronological order of publication.
Author : June O. Leavitt
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199827831
June O. Leavitt offers a fascinating examination of the mystical in Franz Kafka's life and writings, showing that Kafka's understanding of the occult was not only a product of his own clairvoyant experiences but of the age in which he lived.
Author : James Rolleston
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1571133364
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 : James Whitlark
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838634273
This work explores what lies behind the fantastic barrier in a borderland that C. G. Jung called the unconscious, the avant-garde writer Kafka termed incomprehensive, and Whitlark argues is an entire spectrum of muted awareness.
Author : Iris Bruce,Mark H. Gelber
Publisher : Studies in German Literature L
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571139818
New essays providing an up-to-date picture of the engagement of artists, philosophers, and critics with Kafka's work.
Author : Patrick M. O'Neil
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0761474730
This nicely illustrated reference for junior high and high school students offers 20-page profiles of 93 of the world's most influential writers of the twentieth century. Arranged alphabetically, each profile provides facts about the writer's life and works as well as a commentary on his or her significance, discussion of political and social events that occurred during his or her lifetime, a reader's guide to major works, and events, beliefs or traditions that inspired the writer's works.
Author : Mark E. Blum
Publisher : Lehigh University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611460094
Franz Kafka is among the most significant 20th century voices to examine the absurdity and terror posed for the individual by what his contemporary Max Weber termed 'the iron cage' of society. Ferdinand Tsnnies had defined the problem of finding community within society for Kafka and his peers in his 1887 book Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft. Kafka took up this issue by focusing upon the 'social discourse' of human relationships. In this book, Mark E. Blum examines Kafka's three novels, Amerika, The Trial, and The Castle in their exploration of how community is formed or eroded in the interpersonal relations of its protagonists. Critical literature has recognized Kafka's ability to narrate the gestural moment of alienation or communion. This 'social discourse' was augmented, however, by a dimension virtually no commentator has recognized-Kafka's conversation with past and present authors. Kafka encoded authors and their texts representing every century of the evolution of modernism and its societal problems, from Bunyan and DeFoe, through Pope and Lessing, to Fontane and Thomas Mann. The inter-textual conversation Kafka conducted can enable us to appreciate the profound human problem of realizing community within society. Cultural historians as well as literary critics will be enriched by the evidence of these encoded cultural conversations. Kafka's 'Imperial Messenger' may finally be heard in the full history of his emanations. Kafka encoded not only past authors, but painters as well. Kafka had been known as a graphic artist in his youth, and was informed by expressionism and cubism as he matured. Kafka's encodings of literature as well as fine art are not solely of the work to which he refers, but the community of authors or painters and their success or failure of community. Kafka's encodings were meant as an extra-textual readings for astute readers, but also as a lesson to his fellow authors whom he held accountable in his correspondence as cultural messengers. Encoding had been a Germanic literary norm since the sixteenth century. Many of Kafka's encodings are of Austrian satirists since the eighteenth century, among them Franz Christoph von Scheyb and Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener, Josef Schreyvogel, as well as the genial irony of Franz Grillparzer. Austrian literature is prominent, but Kafka's encodings are drawn from all Western literature from Plato through his own present. In The Castle the figure of Momus becomes a major index in the history of Western literature, extended from Plato through Lucian, to Nicolaus Gerbel through Goethe. Momus, the arch-critic of manners, morals, and judge of human character, enables a Kafka reader to use this thread to comprehend the errors of commission and omission in the social discourse of his protagonists throughout his opus.