Author : Julian Preece
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 26,34 MB
Release : 2002-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521663915
Offers a rounded contemporary appraisal of Central Europe's most distinctive Modernist.
Author : Carolin Duttlinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 13,27 MB
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110724420X
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.
Author : Graham Bartram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 30,44 MB
Release : 2004-04-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521483926
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.
Author : Carolin Duttlinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 18,33 MB
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521760380
An accessible, comprehensive introduction to the work, life and times of one of the twentieth century's most important writers.
Author : Carolin Duttlinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 35,72 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107085497
Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.
Author : David Herman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 31,56 MB
Release : 2007-07-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521856965
The Cambridge Companion to Narrative provides a unique and valuable overview of current approaches to narrative study. An international team of experts explores ideas of storytelling and methods of narrative analysis as they have emerged across diverse traditions of inquiry and in connection with a variety of media, from film and television, to storytelling in the 'real-life' contexts of face-to-face interaction, to literary fiction. Each chapter presents a survey of scholarly approaches to topics such as character, dialogue, genre or language, shows how those approaches can be brought to bear on a relatively well-known illustrative example, and indicates directions for further research. Featuring a chapter reviewing definitions of narrative, a glossary of key terms and a comprehensive index, this is an essential resource for both students and scholars in many fields, including language and literature, composition and rhetoric, creative writing, jurisprudence, communication and media studies, and the social sciences.
Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 44,56 MB
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107159628
A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.
Author : Steven Crowell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 26,8 MB
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107493846
Existentialism exerts a continuing fascination on students of philosophy and general readers. As a philosophical phenomenon, though, it is often poorly understood, as a form of radical subjectivism that turns its back on reason and argumentation and possesses all the liabilities of philosophical idealism but without any idealistic conceptual clarity. In this volume of original essays, the first to be devoted exclusively to existentialism in over forty years, a team of distinguished commentators discuss the ideas of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Beauvoir and show how their focus on existence provides a compelling perspective on contemporary issues in moral psychology and philosophy of mind, language and history. A further sequence of chapters examines the influence of existential ideas beyond philosophy, in literature, religion, politics and psychiatry. The volume offers a rich and comprehensive assessment of the continuing vitality of existentialism as a philosophical movement and a cultural phenomenon.
Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 37,87 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521653701
Specially-commissioned essays explore key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life.
Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110749494X
This second edition of The Cambridge Companion to Joyce contains several revised essays, reflecting increasing emphasis on Joyce's politics, a fresh sense of the importance of his engagement with Ireland, and the changes wrought by gender studies on criticism of his work. This Companion gathers an international team of leading scholars who shed light on Joyce's work and life. The contributions are informative, stimulating and full of rich and accessible insights which will provoke thought and discussion in and out of the classroom. The Companion's reading lists and extended bibliography offer readers the necessary tools for further informed exploration of Joyce studies. This volume is designed primarily as a students' reference work (although it is organised so that it can also be read from cover to cover), and will deepen and extend the enjoyment and understanding of Joyce for the new reader.
