Julian Preece (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to Kafka

Herausgeber: Julian, Preece; Preece, Julian

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Table of contents:
Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Chronology; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Kafka's Europe Julian Preece; 1. Kafka's writing and our reading David Constantine; 2. A psychoanalytic reading of The Man Who Disappeared Anne Fuchs; 3. The exploration of the modern city in The Trial Rolf J. Goebel; 4. The Castle Elizabeth Boa; 5. Kafka's short fiction Ruth V. Gross; 6. Kafka's later stories and aphorisms Stanley Corngold; 7. The letters and diaries Julian Preece; 8. The case for a political reading Bill Dodd; 9. Kafka and Jewish folklore Iris Bruce; 10. Kafka and gender Dagmar C. G. Lorenz; 11. Myths and realities in Kafka biography Anthony Northey; 12. Editions, translations, adaptations Osman Durrani; 13. Kafka adapted to film Helen Hughes and Martin Brady; 14. Kafka and popular culture Iris Bruce; Index.

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.

Offers a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe's most distinctive Modernist.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 611g
• ISBN-13: 9780521663144
• ISBN-10: 0521663148
• Artikelnr.: 22046171

Autorenporträt

Julian Preece is Senior Lecturer at the School of European Culture and Languages at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author (with Waldemar Lotnik) of Nine Lives: Ethnic Conflict in the Polish-Ukrainian Borderlands and The Life and Work of Günter Grass: Literature, History, Politics (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chronology
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Kafka's Europe Julian Preece
1. Kafka's writing and our reading David Constantine
2. A psychoanalytic reading of The Man Who Disappeared Anne Fuchs
3. The exploration of the modern city in The Trial Rolf J. Goebel
4. The Castle Elizabeth Boa
5. Kafka's short fiction Ruth V. Gross
6. Kafka's later stories and aphorisms Stanley Corngold
7. The letters and diaries Julian Preece
8. The case for a political reading Bill Dodd
9. Kafka and Jewish folklore Iris Bruce
10. Kafka and gender Dagmar C. G. Lorenz
11. Myths and realities in Kafka biography Anthony Northey
12. Editions, translations, adaptations Osman Durrani
13. Kafka adapted to film Helen Hughes and Martin Brady
14. Kafka and popular culture Iris Bruce
Index.