| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 382 pages). |
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data file rda |
| Series |
Critical insights |
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Critical insights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
On The metamorphosis : a neo-anthropological approach to its conflicts / James Whitlark -- Biography of Franz Kafka / Ritchie Robertson -- The Paris review perspective / Ian MacDougall for The Paris review -- Kafka's metamorphoses : texts and textualities / Patrick J. O'Neill -- The cultural and historical context of Kafka's Metamorphosis : anti-Semitism, zionism, and the Yiddish plays / Iris Bruce -- Rushdie's homage to Kafka : metamorphoses in The satanic verses and Shame / Marjorie E. Rhine -- A selective survey of the reception of The metamorphosis / Simon Ryan -- Reading for constructions of the unspeakable in Kafka's Metamorphosis / Margaret Sönser Breen -- The human vermin : Kafka's metaphor for extreme alienation / Ramón G. Mendoza -- "Die Verwandlung," Freud, and the chains of Odysseus / David Eggenschwiler -- Transforming Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis / Nina Pelikan Straus -- From Marx to myth : the structure and function of self-alienation in Kafka's Metamorphosis / Walter H. Sokel -- The structure of Kafka's Metamorphosis : metamorphosis of the metaphor / Stanley Corngold -- Reflections on Kafka's urban reader / Paul Reitter and Brett Wheeler -- Confinement in Die Verwandlung and Les séquestrés d'Altona / Mary Ann Witt -- Kafka's reality and Nabokov's fantasy : on dwarves, saints, beetles, symbolism, and genius / Leland de la Durantaye -- Kafka's sources for The metamorphosis / Mark Spilka. |
| Note |
Print version record. |
| Summary |
This book provides a great starting point for students seeking an introduction to Franz Kafka's most famous novella. Essays include a new, lengthy biography of the author, a discussion of the cultural and historical context of the work, the structure and function of self-alienation, Kafka's metaphor for extreme alienation, and a selective survey of the critical reception of The Metamorphosis. |
| Subject |
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Verwandlung.
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Verwandlung (Kafka, Franz) (OCoLC)fst01358070
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
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| Added Author |
Whitlark, James, 1948-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, ©2012 9781587658402 (DLC) 2011022415 (OCoLC)729574249 |
| Standard No. |
9786613665898 |
| ISBN |
9781587658921 (electronic bk.) |
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1587658925 (electronic bk.) |
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