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Franz Kafka is one of the most important figures in
twentieth-century culture. The fascination of his work has long
since reached international proportions, and the concept
'Kafkaesque' has entered the English Language as an everyday part
of speech. This new edition of Kafka's famous story contains a
critical introduction and notes which help to explain how the
author achieves his particular effects. The editors are concerned
less with what the story means then with how it blocks and baffles
its reader, provoking them into an interpretation through its
combination of clues and counter-clues, its questions and its
uncertainties. Careful attention is therefore paid to the
'openness' of the text, to point of view, and to Kafka's use of
language. The editors also consider the important biographical and
cultural influences which shaped the writing of the story, and they
outline some of the very different ways in which it has been
interpreted --biographically, socially and psychologically. A
select vocabulary, aimed at the demands of the sixth-form pupil, is
also included, and the text itself is taken from the original
hardback edition.
The nine essays in this volume deal with major achievements in the
German novel since 1959. They range from the very well known, such
as Brussig's Helden wie wir, an extravagant treatment of life under
the Stasi and the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the much more
recondite, such as Hubert Fichte's Detlevs Imitationen "Grunspan",
one of the first, and most important, products of the abolition of
the discrimination against gays in 1969. What is most surprising
about this collection is that, in contrast to the majority of
successful novels written in German before 1959, only one of these
is by a clearly 'West' German author: Hubert Fichte. There is, by
contrast, a surprising number who have their roots in the GDR
(Plenzdorf, Wolf, Brussig, Schulze), or in Austria (Bachmann,
Bernhard). This is also a period in which women writers emerge
powerfully (Bachmann, Wolf, and OEzdamar). Virtually all these
novels aroused controversy in some quarters at the time of their
publication, often for their treatment of semi-taboo, or at least
uncomfortable, subject-matter. These essays, all by specialists in
the relevant field, were originally delivered as lectures in the
University of Cambridge.
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Franz Kafka; Edited by Peter Hutchinson, Michael Minden
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Franz Kafka is one of the most important figures in
twentieth-century culture. The fascination of his work has long
since reached international proportions, and the concept
'Kafkaesque' has entered the English Language as an everyday part
of speech. This new edition of Kafka's famous story contains a
critical introduction and notes which help to explain how the
author achieves his particular effects. The editors are concerned
less with what the story means then with how it blocks and baffles
its reader, provoking them into an interpretation through its
combination of clues and counter-clues, its questions and its
uncertainties. Careful attention is therefore paid to the
'openness' of the text, to point of view, and to Kafka's use of
language. The editors also consider the important biographical and
cultural influences which shaped the writing of the story, and they
outline some of the very different ways in which it has been
interpreted --biographically, socially and psychologically. A
select vocabulary, aimed at the demands of the sixth-form pupil, is
also included, and the text itself is taken from the original
hardback edition.
A collection of essays -- early seminal works as well as
freshinterpretations -- on the famous German expressionist
film,Metropolis. Fritz Lang's classic 1927 film Metropolis has
justifiably become an icon for the complexities of Weimar culture.
Among the important general issues it also raises are the relation
between ideology and art, the status and authorship of the film
text in the entertainment market, the city, the construction of
gender, the relation between the human body and the machine in
modernity, and the relation between mass and high culture. This
volume provides abroad range of materials and resources for the
study of Lang's film, including both well-known, previously
published critical essays and contributions appearing for the first
time here. The editors provide a two-part introductionthat
furnishes context for what follows: Bachmann's part deals with the
genesis, production, and contemporary reception of the film, while
Minden's defines the problems posed by the text and reviews
thesolutions to these problemsas proposed by later generations of
critics.The first part of the book proper includes selected
contemporaryreviews, commentary by Fritz Lang and others involved
in the making ofthe film, and extracts from Thea von Harbou's
original novel. In the second part, eight modern scholars provide
fresh essays on the genesis, promotion, and reception of the film.
Approximately half of the material in the volume has never before
appeared in print. The volume will appealto students of German,
film, cultural and intellectual history, and social theory. Michael
Minden is University Lecturer in German at Cambridge University and
a fellow of Jesus College. Holger Bachmann received hisPh.D. from
Cambridge on Arthur Schnitzler and film.
This book was originally published in 1997. The Bildungsroman - the
story of the development or formation of a young man - is the most
famous German contribution to the European novel. Most studies of
the Bildungsroman have concentrated on its underlying philosophy;
Michael Minden addresses it as literature. He offers detailed
readings of some of the best-known novels in the German language,
from Goethe to Mann, including Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Agathon,
Anton Reiser, Hyperion, Heinrich von Ofterdingen, Der grune
Heinrich, Der Nachsommer, and Der Zauberberg. Looking at the novels
from the points of view of gender, subjectivity, and the ideology
of the aesthetic, and taking account of the literary theory, Minden
uncovers aspects and motifs which subvert traditional ideas of the
Bildungsroman and raise questions about the function and status of
literature.
This book was originally published in 1997. The Bildungsroman - the
story of the development or formation of a young man - is the most
famous German contribution to the European novel. Most studies of
the Bildungsroman have concentrated on its underlying philosophy;
Michael Minden addresses it as literature. He offers detailed
readings of some of the best-known novels in the German language,
from Goethe to Mann, including Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre, Agathon,
Anton Reiser, Hyperion, Heinrich von Ofterdingen, Der grune
Heinrich, Der Nachsommer, and Der Zauberberg. Looking at the novels
from the points of view of gender, subjectivity, and the ideology
of the aesthetic, and taking account of the literary theory, Minden
uncovers aspects and motifs which subvert traditional ideas of the
Bildungsroman and raise questions about the function and status of
literature.
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