Author: James Rolleston
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Trial
Author: James Rolleston
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Trial
Author: James Rolleston
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780139263378
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN: 9780139263378
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 115
Book Description
The Trial (Legend Classics)
Author: Franz Kafka
Publisher: Legend Press
ISBN: 1789559537
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Part of the Legend Classics series It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves. A novel of such ambiguity will inevitably lend itself to a diversity of interpretation, but in The Trial you can at least be sure to find every element of storytelling now defined as Kafkaesque. Josef K., our protagonist, is unexpectedly arrested on the morning of his thirtieth birthday. The agents who arrest him are unidentified, the agency they work for is unspecified, and the crime for which he has been accused is unknown. When he is released, shortly after, he is told to await further instruction. So begins the manic and emotionless trial of a man beholden to the whims of an unknown force, and his painstaking attempts to find a way out of this existential maze. The Trial brings into focus the absurdity of life, our universal fear of judgement, and one ultimate question: how much of this endless maze will you explore before you accept the fate life has bestowed upon you? The Legend Classics series: Around the World in Eighty Days The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Importance of Being Earnest Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The Metamorphosis The Railway Children The Hound of the Baskervilles Frankenstein Wuthering Heights Three Men in a Boat The Time Machine Little Women Anne of Green Gables The Jungle Book The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories Dracula A Study in Scarlet Leaves of Grass The Secret Garden The War of the Worlds A Christmas Carol Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Heart of Darkness The Scarlet Letter This Side of Paradise Oliver Twist The Picture of Dorian Gray Treasure Island The Turn of the Screw The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Emma The Trial A Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe Grimm Fairy Tales
Publisher: Legend Press
ISBN: 1789559537
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
Part of the Legend Classics series It's only because of their stupidity that they're able to be so sure of themselves. A novel of such ambiguity will inevitably lend itself to a diversity of interpretation, but in The Trial you can at least be sure to find every element of storytelling now defined as Kafkaesque. Josef K., our protagonist, is unexpectedly arrested on the morning of his thirtieth birthday. The agents who arrest him are unidentified, the agency they work for is unspecified, and the crime for which he has been accused is unknown. When he is released, shortly after, he is told to await further instruction. So begins the manic and emotionless trial of a man beholden to the whims of an unknown force, and his painstaking attempts to find a way out of this existential maze. The Trial brings into focus the absurdity of life, our universal fear of judgement, and one ultimate question: how much of this endless maze will you explore before you accept the fate life has bestowed upon you? The Legend Classics series: Around the World in Eighty Days The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Importance of Being Earnest Alice's Adventures in Wonderland The Metamorphosis The Railway Children The Hound of the Baskervilles Frankenstein Wuthering Heights Three Men in a Boat The Time Machine Little Women Anne of Green Gables The Jungle Book The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories Dracula A Study in Scarlet Leaves of Grass The Secret Garden The War of the Worlds A Christmas Carol Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Heart of Darkness The Scarlet Letter This Side of Paradise Oliver Twist The Picture of Dorian Gray Treasure Island The Turn of the Screw The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Emma The Trial A Selection of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe Grimm Fairy Tales
Kafka's The Trial
Author: Espen Hammer
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190461470
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Kafka's novel The Trial, written from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925, is a multi-faceted, notoriously difficult manifestation of European literary modernism, and one of the most emblematic books of the 20th Century. It tells the story of Josef K., a man accused of a crime he has no recollection of committing and whose nature is never revealed to him. The novel is often interpreted theologically as an expression of radical nihilism and a world abandoned by God. It is also read as a parable of the cold, inhumane rationality of modern bureaucratization. Like many other novels of this turbulent period, it offers a tragic quest-narrative in which the hero searches for truth and clarity (whether about himself, or the anonymous system he is facing), only to fall into greater and greater confusion. This collection of nine new essays and an editor's introduction brings together Kafka experts, intellectual historians, literary scholars, and philosophers in order to explore the novel's philosophical and theological significance. Authors pursue the novel's central concerns of justice, law, resistance, ethics, alienation, and subjectivity. Few novels display human uncertainty and skepticism in the face of rapid modernization, or the metaphysical as it intersects with the most mundane aspects of everyday life, more insistently than The Trial. Ultimately, the essays in this collection focus on how Kafka's text is in fact philosophical in the ways in which it achieves its literary aims. Rather than considering ideas as externally related to the text, the text is considered philosophical at the very level of literary form and technique.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190461470
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 313
Book Description
Kafka's novel The Trial, written from 1914 to 1915 and published in 1925, is a multi-faceted, notoriously difficult manifestation of European literary modernism, and one of the most emblematic books of the 20th Century. It tells the story of Josef K., a man accused of a crime he has no recollection of committing and whose nature is never revealed to him. The novel is often interpreted theologically as an expression of radical nihilism and a world abandoned by God. It is also read as a parable of the cold, inhumane rationality of modern bureaucratization. Like many other novels of this turbulent period, it offers a tragic quest-narrative in which the hero searches for truth and clarity (whether about himself, or the anonymous system he is facing), only to fall into greater and greater confusion. This collection of nine new essays and an editor's introduction brings together Kafka experts, intellectual historians, literary scholars, and philosophers in order to explore the novel's philosophical and theological significance. Authors pursue the novel's central concerns of justice, law, resistance, ethics, alienation, and subjectivity. Few novels display human uncertainty and skepticism in the face of rapid modernization, or the metaphysical as it intersects with the most mundane aspects of everyday life, more insistently than The Trial. Ultimately, the essays in this collection focus on how Kafka's text is in fact philosophical in the ways in which it achieves its literary aims. Rather than considering ideas as externally related to the text, the text is considered philosophical at the very level of literary form and technique.
Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Author: Denton Fox
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gawain (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gawain (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Transgressive Readings
Author: Valerie D. Greenberg
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472101580
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Argues for a critical awareness of language across the boundaries of disciplines
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472101580
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Argues for a critical awareness of language across the boundaries of disciplines
Franz Kafka
Author: Neil Heins
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438115245
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Provides a biography of Franz Kafka along with critical views of his work.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1438115245
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
Provides a biography of Franz Kafka along with critical views of his work.
Twentieth Century Interpretations of the Merchant of Venice
Author: Sylvan Barnet
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Crucible
Author: John H. Ferres
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Contemporary critics analyze historical background, themes, structure, and characterization in Arthur Miller's study of the Salem witch trials.
Publisher: Prentice Hall
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Contemporary critics analyze historical background, themes, structure, and characterization in Arthur Miller's study of the Salem witch trials.
Nietzsche and Modernism
Author: Stewart Smith
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319755358
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Reconfiguring Nietzsche’s seminal impact on modernist literature and culture, this book presents a distinctive new reading of modernism by exploring his sustained philosophical engagement with nihilism and its inextricable tie to pain and sickness. Arguing that modernist texts dramatize the frailty of the ill, the impotent, and the traumatised modern subject unable to render suffering significant through traditional religious means, it uses the Nietzschean diagnoses of nihilism and what he calls 'ressentiment', the entwined feelings of powerlessness and vindictiveness, as heuristic tools to remap the fictional landscapes of Lawrence, Kafka, and Beckett. Lucid, authoritative and accessible, this book will appeal internationally to literature and philosophy scholars and undergraduates as well as to readers in medical and sociological fields.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319755358
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Reconfiguring Nietzsche’s seminal impact on modernist literature and culture, this book presents a distinctive new reading of modernism by exploring his sustained philosophical engagement with nihilism and its inextricable tie to pain and sickness. Arguing that modernist texts dramatize the frailty of the ill, the impotent, and the traumatised modern subject unable to render suffering significant through traditional religious means, it uses the Nietzschean diagnoses of nihilism and what he calls 'ressentiment', the entwined feelings of powerlessness and vindictiveness, as heuristic tools to remap the fictional landscapes of Lawrence, Kafka, and Beckett. Lucid, authoritative and accessible, this book will appeal internationally to literature and philosophy scholars and undergraduates as well as to readers in medical and sociological fields.