Kafka's social discourse : an aesthetic search for community / / Mark E. Blum
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| Autore: |
Blum Mark E.
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| Titolo: |
Kafka's social discourse : an aesthetic search for community / / Mark E. Blum
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| Pubblicazione: | Bethlehem, [Pennsylvania] : , : Lehigh University Press, , 2011 |
| ©2011 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (307 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 833/.912 |
| Soggetto topico: | Interpersonal relations in literature |
| Communities in literature | |
| Social problems in literature | |
| Literature and society - Germany - History - 20th century | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. 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 re |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Kafka's social discourse |
| ISBN: | 1-61146-009-3 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910809340103321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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