The Cambridge companion to Kafka / / edited by Julian Preece [[electronic resource]]
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| Titolo: |
The Cambridge companion to Kafka / / edited by Julian Preece [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2002 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xix, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| Disciplina: | 833/.912 |
| B | |
| Soggetto topico: | Authors, Austrian - 20th century |
| Persona (resp. second.): | PreeceJulian |
| Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Nov 2015). |
| Nota di contenuto: | ; Introduction: Kafka's Europe / Julian Preece -- Kafka's writing and our reading / David Constantine -- A psychoanalytic reading of The man who disappeared / Anne Fuchs -- The exploration of the modern city in The trial / Rolf J. Goebel -- The castle / Elizabeth Boa -- Kafka's short fiction / Ruth V. Gross -- Kafka's later stories and aphorisms / Stanley Corngold -- The letters and diaries / Julian Preece -- The case for a political reading / Bill Dodd -- Kafka and Jewish folklore / Iris Bruce -- Kafka and gender / Dagmar C.G. Lorenz -- Myths and realities in Kafka biography / Anthony Northey -- Editions, translations, adaptations / Osman Durrani -- Kafka adapted to film / Martin Brady, Helen Hughes -- Kafka and popular culture / Iris Bruce. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Franz Kafka's writing has had a wide-reaching influence on European literature, culture and thought. The Cambridge Companion to Kafka, offers a comprehensive account of his life and work, providing a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe's most distinctive Modernist. Contributions cover all the key texts, and discuss Kafka's writing in a variety of critical contexts such as feminism, deconstruction, psycho-analysis, Marxism, Jewish studies. Other chapters discuss his impact on popular culture and film. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading, and will be of interest to students of German, European and Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The Cambridge companion to Kafka |
| ISBN: | 1-139-81617-9 |
| 0-511-99980-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 996216692203316 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. di Salerno |
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Cambridge companions to literature.