Kafka A Guide For The Perplexed
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Kafka A Guide For The Perplexed
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Author : Clayton Koelb
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2010-06-17
Kafka A Guide For The Perplexed written by Clayton Koelb and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
Franz Kafka is one of the most widely taught, and read, writers in world literature. Readers encountering texts like 'The Metamorphosis' and The Trial for the first time are frequently perplexed by his often intentionally weird writing. Some might say that Kafka's enduring achievement has been to make his readers love being perplexed. As much of Kafka's writing is designed to perplex the reader, this guide helps the reader understand why and how perplexity has been deliberately created by Kafka's text and to realize what the uses of such perplexity might be. The book guides readers through their first encounters with Kafka and introduces the problems involved in reading his texts, the nature of his texts from the key novels and novellas to letters and professional writings, his life as a writer and different approaches to reading Kafka.
Kafka A Guide For The Perplexed
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Author : Clayton Koelb
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-08-19
Kafka A Guide For The Perplexed written by Clayton Koelb and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
Student guide to Franz Kafka, focusing on giving guidance through the difficulties readers can encounter in studying his work.
Franz Kafka In Context
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Author : Carolin Duttlinger
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2018
Franz Kafka In Context written by Carolin Duttlinger and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Literary Criticism categories.
Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.
Understanding Franz Kafka
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Author : Allen Thiher
language : en
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Release Date : 2018-01-15
Understanding Franz Kafka written by Allen Thiher and has been published by Univ of South Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
An analysis of the life of the eccentric author of The Trial, and his quest for meaning in his work. Franz Kafka is without question one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century despite the fact that much of his work remained unpublished when he died at a relatively young age in 1924. Kafka’s eccentric methods of composition and his diffident attitude toward publishing left most of his writing to be edited and published after his death by his literary executor, Max Brod. In Understanding Franz Kafka, Allen Thiher addresses the development of Kafka’s work by analyzing it in terms of its chronological unfolding, emphasizing the various phases in Kafka’s life that can be discerned in his constant quest to find a meaning for his writing. Thiher also shows that Kafka’s work, frequently self-referential, explores the ways literature can have meaning in a world in which writing is a dubious activity. After outlining Kafka’s life using new biographical information, Thiher examines Kafka’s first attempts at writing, often involving nearly farcical experiments. The study then shows how Kafka’s work developed through twists and turns, beginning with the breakthrough stories “The Judgment” and “The Metamorphosis,” continuing with his first attempt at a novel with Amerika, and followed by Kafka’s shifting back and forth between short fiction and two other unpublished novels, The Trial and The Castle. Thiher also calls on Kafka’s notebooks and diaries to help demonstrate that he never stopped experimenting in his attempt to find a literary form that might satisfy his desire to create some kind of transcendental text in an era in which the transcendent is at best an object of nostalgia or of comic derision. In short, Thiher contends, Kafka constantly sought the grounds for writing in a world in which all appears groundless.
Kafka S Zoopoetics
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Author : Naama Harel
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2020-04-14
Kafka S Zoopoetics written by Naama Harel and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
Nonhuman figures are ubiquitous in the work of Franz Kafka, from his early stories down to his very last one. Despite their prominence throughout his oeuvre, Kafka’s animal representations have been considered first and foremost as mere allegories of intrahuman matters. In recent years, the allegorization of Kafka’s animals has been poetically dismissed by Kafka’s commentators and politically rejected by posthumanist scholars. Such critique, however, has yet to inspire either an overarching or an interdiscursive account. This book aims to fill this lacuna. Positing animal stories as a distinct and significant corpus within Kafka’s entire poetics, and closely examining them in dialogue with both literary and posthumanist analysis, Kafka’s Zoopoetics critically revisits animality, interspecies relations, and the very human-animal contradistinction in the writings of Franz Kafka. Kafka’s animals typically stand at the threshold between humanity and animality, fusing together human and nonhuman features. Among his liminal creatures we find a human transformed into vermin (in “The Metamorphosis”), an ape turned into a human being (in “A Report to an Academy”), talking jackals (in “Jackals and Arabs”), a philosophical dog (in “Researches of a Dog”), a contemplative mole-like creature (in “The Burrow”), and indiscernible beings (in “Josefine, the Singer or the Mouse People”). Depicting species boundaries as mutable and obscure, Kafka creates a fluid human-animal space, which can be described as “humanimal.” The constitution of a humanimal space radically undermines the stark barrier between human and other animals, dictated by the anthropocentric paradigm. Through denying animalistic elements in humans, and disavowing the agency of nonhuman animals, excluding them from social life, and neutralizing compassion for them, this barrier has been designed to regularize both humanity and animality. The contextualization of Kafka's animals within posthumanist theory engenders a post-anthropocentric arena, which is simultaneously both imagined and very real.
Investigating Franz Kafka S Der Bau
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Author : Andrea Ebarb
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2023-04-27
Investigating Franz Kafka S Der Bau written by Andrea Ebarb and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-27 with History categories.
In 2016, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that Max Brod’s posthumous papers which included a collection of Kafka’s manuscripts be transferred to the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem. If Kafka’s writings may be seen to belong to Jewish national culture and if they may be considered part of Israel’s heritage, then their analysis within a Jewish framework should be both viable and valuable. This volume is dedicated to the research of Franz Kafka’s late narrative “The Burrow” and its autobiographical and theological significance. Research is extended to incorporate many fields of study (architecture, sound studies, philosophy, cultural studies, Jewish studies, literary studies) to illustrate the dynamics at work within the text which reveal the Jewish aspects implicitly thematicized. Examination of the structure created, the nature of sound perceived, the atmosphere experienced and the acts performed by the protagonist serve as the foundation of this analysis and offer new access to Kafka’s work by presenting an interpretive, space-semantic approach. “Der Bau” is presented as a life concept given the task of constituting identity, highlighting the critical link between the literary and biographical Kafka and demonstrating the necessity of understanding the author as a Jewish writer to understand his late narrative. For her outstanding research project, Andrea Newsom Ebarb was awarded the “Forschungsförderpreis der Vereinigung der Freunde der Universität Mainz e.V.” in 2023.
Quotes From My Blog Letters
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Author : Tatyana Miller
language : en
Publisher: Litres
Release Date : 2021-04-07
Quotes From My Blog Letters written by Tatyana Miller and has been published by Litres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-04-07 with Political Science categories.
This book is a collection of quotes from letters that was selected from the books I personally read, and republished on my blog from July 2017 to March 2021.
Incarceration And Slavery In The Middle Ages And The Early Modern Age
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Author : Albrecht Classen
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2021-10-19
Incarceration And Slavery In The Middle Ages And The Early Modern Age written by Albrecht Classen and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-19 with Literary Criticism categories.
People in the Middle Ages and the early modern age more often suffered from imprisonment and enslavement than we might have assumed. Incarceration and Slavery in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Age approaches these topics from a wide variety of perspectives and demonstrates collectively the great relevance of the issues involved. Both incarceration and slavery were (and continue to be) most painful experiences, and no one was guaranteed exemption from it. High-ranking nobles and royalties were often the victims of imprisonment and, at times, had to wait many years until their ransom was paid. Similarly, slavery existed throughout Christian Europe and in the Arab world. However, while imprisonment occasionally proved to be the catalyst for major writings and creativity, slaves in the Ottoman empire and in Egypt succeeded in rising to the highest position in society (Janissaries, Mamluks, and others).
Philosophy And Kafka
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Author : Brendan Moran
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date : 2013-04-19
Philosophy And Kafka written by Brendan Moran and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-19 with Philosophy categories.
Philosophy and Kafka is a collection of original essays interrogating the relationship of literature and philosophy. The essays either discuss specific philosophical commentaries on Kafka’s work, consider the possible relevance of certain philosophical outlooks for examining Kafka’s writings, or examine Kafka’s writings in terms of a specific philosophical theme, such as communication and subjectivity, language and meaning, knowledge and truth, the human/animal divide, justice, and freedom.
The Mystical Life Of Franz Kafka
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Author : June O. Leavitt
language : en
Publisher: OUP USA
Release Date : 2012
The Mystical Life Of Franz Kafka written by June O. Leavitt and has been published by OUP USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.