The Cambridge Companion to Kafka (Cambridge Companions to Literature)
by:
Julian Preece (author)
This Companion of specially-commissioned essays 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...
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This Companion of specially-commissioned essays 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, psychoanalysis, Marxism, and Jewish studies. The essays are enhanced by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading. They will be of interest to students of German, European and Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780521663915 (0521663911)
ASIN: 521663911
Publish date: November 16th 2005
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages no: 280
Edition language: English
Fourteen chapters by different authors on various aspects of Kafka's life and work. Some very esoteric; others more broadly interesting.See my Kafka-related bookshelf for other works by and about Kafka (http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/1199525-cecily?format=html&order=a&shelf=kafka).
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