Author: Julian Preece
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521663915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Offers a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe's most distinctive Modernist.
The Cambridge Companion to Kafka
Author: Julian Preece
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521663915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Offers a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe's most distinctive Modernist.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521663915
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Offers a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe's most distinctive Modernist.
Cambridge Companion to Kafka
The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka
Author: Carolin Duttlinger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110724420X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) is one of the most influential of modern authors, whose darkly fascinating novels and stories - where themes such as power, punishment and alienation loom large - have become emblematic of modern life. This Introduction offers a clear and accessible account of Kafka's life, work and literary influence and overturns many myths surrounding them. His texts are in fact far more engaging, diverse, light-hearted and ironic than is commonly suggested by clichés of 'the Kafkaesque'. And, once explored in detail, they are less difficult and impenetrable than is often assumed. Through close analysis of their style, imagery and narrative perspective, Carolin Duttlinger aims to give readers the confidence to (re-)discover Kafka's works without constant recourse to the mantras of critical orthodoxy. In addition, she situates Kafka's texts within their wider cultural, historical and political contexts illustrating how they respond to the concerns of their age, and of our own.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110724420X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Franz Kafka (1883–1924) is one of the most influential of modern authors, whose darkly fascinating novels and stories - where themes such as power, punishment and alienation loom large - have become emblematic of modern life. This Introduction offers a clear and accessible account of Kafka's life, work and literary influence and overturns many myths surrounding them. His texts are in fact far more engaging, diverse, light-hearted and ironic than is commonly suggested by clichés of 'the Kafkaesque'. And, once explored in detail, they are less difficult and impenetrable than is often assumed. Through close analysis of their style, imagery and narrative perspective, Carolin Duttlinger aims to give readers the confidence to (re-)discover Kafka's works without constant recourse to the mantras of critical orthodoxy. In addition, she situates Kafka's texts within their wider cultural, historical and political contexts illustrating how they respond to the concerns of their age, and of our own.
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel
Author: Graham Bartram
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521483926
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present. Written by an international team of experts, it encompasses both modernist and realist traditions, and also includes a look back to the roots of the modern novel in the Bildungsroman of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The structure is broadly chronological, but thematically-focused chapters examine topics such as gender anxiety, images of the city, war, and women's writing; within each chapter, key works are selected for close attention. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and detailed analysis of individual works, and featuring a chronology and guides to further reading, this Companion will be indispensable to students and teachers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521483926
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel, first published in 2004, provides a broad ranging introduction to the major trends in the development of the German novel from the 1890s to the present. Written by an international team of experts, it encompasses both modernist and realist traditions, and also includes a look back to the roots of the modern novel in the Bildungsroman of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The structure is broadly chronological, but thematically-focused chapters examine topics such as gender anxiety, images of the city, war, and women's writing; within each chapter, key works are selected for close attention. Unique in its combination of breadth of coverage and detailed analysis of individual works, and featuring a chronology and guides to further reading, this Companion will be indispensable to students and teachers.
The Cambridge Companion to World Literature
Author: Ben Etherington
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108612032
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to World Literature introduces the significant ideas and practices of world literary studies. It provides a lucid and accessible account of the fundamental issues and concepts in world literature, including the problems of imagining the totality of literature; comparing literary works across histories, cultures and languages; and understanding how literary production is affected by forces such as imperialism and globalization. The essays demonstrate how detailed critical engagements with particular literary texts call forth differing conceptions of world literature, and, conversely, how theories of world literature shape our practices of readings. Subjects covered include cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, internationalism, scale and systems, sociological criticism, translation, scripts, and orality. This book also includes original analyses of genres and forms, ranging from tragedy to the novel and graphic fiction, lyric poetry to the short story and world cinema.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108612032
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to World Literature introduces the significant ideas and practices of world literary studies. It provides a lucid and accessible account of the fundamental issues and concepts in world literature, including the problems of imagining the totality of literature; comparing literary works across histories, cultures and languages; and understanding how literary production is affected by forces such as imperialism and globalization. The essays demonstrate how detailed critical engagements with particular literary texts call forth differing conceptions of world literature, and, conversely, how theories of world literature shape our practices of readings. Subjects covered include cosmopolitanism, transnationalism, internationalism, scale and systems, sociological criticism, translation, scripts, and orality. This book also includes original analyses of genres and forms, ranging from tragedy to the novel and graphic fiction, lyric poetry to the short story and world cinema.
The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka
Author: Carolin Duttlinger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521760380
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
An accessible, comprehensive introduction to the work, life and times of one of the twentieth century's most important writers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521760380
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
An accessible, comprehensive introduction to the work, life and times of one of the twentieth century's most important writers.
The Cambridge Companion to Hannah Arendt
Author: Dana Villa
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521645713
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A distinguished team of contributors examines the primary themes of Arendt's multi-faceted thought.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521645713
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
A distinguished team of contributors examines the primary themes of Arendt's multi-faceted thought.
The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
Author: Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107159628
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107159628
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.
Franz Kafka in Context
Author: Carolin Duttlinger
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107085497
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107085497
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.
The Cambridge Companion to Modernism
Author: Michael Levenson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521498661
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ten eminent scholars from Britain and the United States offer timely new appraisals of the revolutionary cultural transformations of the first decades of the twentieth century. Chapters on the major literary genres, intellectual, political and institutional contexts, film and the visual arts, provide both close analyses of individual works and a broader set of interpretive narratives. A chronology and guide to further reading supply valuable orientation for the study of Modernism. Readers will be able to use the book at once as a standard work of reference and as a stimulating source of compelling new readings of works by writers and artists from Joyce and Woolf to Stein, Picasso, Chaplin, H. D. and Freud, and many others. Students will find much-needed help with the difficulties of approaching Modernism, while the essays' original contributions will send scholars back to this volume for stimulating re-evaluation.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521498661
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ten eminent scholars from Britain and the United States offer timely new appraisals of the revolutionary cultural transformations of the first decades of the twentieth century. Chapters on the major literary genres, intellectual, political and institutional contexts, film and the visual arts, provide both close analyses of individual works and a broader set of interpretive narratives. A chronology and guide to further reading supply valuable orientation for the study of Modernism. Readers will be able to use the book at once as a standard work of reference and as a stimulating source of compelling new readings of works by writers and artists from Joyce and Woolf to Stein, Picasso, Chaplin, H. D. and Freud, and many others. Students will find much-needed help with the difficulties of approaching Modernism, while the essays' original contributions will send scholars back to this volume for stimulating re-evaluation.