Before the Law / Vor dem Gesetz

Before the Law / Vor dem Gesetz
Title Before the Law / Vor dem Gesetz PDF eBook
Author Franz Kafka
Publisher BoD E-Short
Pages 7
Release 2015-01-26
Genre Fiction
ISBN 3734758505

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This edition contains the English translation and the original text in German. "Before the Law" (German: "Vor dem Gesetz") is a parable contained in the novel "The Trial" (German: "Der Prozess"), by Franz Kafka. "Before the Law" was published in Kafka's lifetime, first in the New Year's edition 1915 of the independent Jewish weekly "Selbstwehr", then in 1919 as part of the collection "Ein Landarzt" ("A Country Doctor"). "The Trial", however, was not published until 1925, after Kafka's death. "Vor dem Gesetz" ist ein 1915 veröffentlichter Prosatext Franz Kafkas, der auch als Türhüterlegende oder Türhüterparabel bekannt ist. Die Handlung besteht darin, dass ein "Mann vom Land" vergeblich versucht, den Eintritt in das Gesetz zu erlangen, das von einem Türhüter bewacht wird.

Before the Law

Before the Law
Title Before the Law PDF eBook
Author Jacques Derrida
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2018
Genre LAW
ISBN 9781517905514

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Proceedings of the 1982 Colloquium in Cerisy-la-Salle, France.

Franz Kafka in Context

Franz Kafka in Context
Title Franz Kafka in Context PDF eBook
Author Carolin Duttlinger
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 365
Release 2018
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1107085497

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Accessible essays place Kafka in historical, political and cultural context, providing new and often unexpected perspectives on his works.

What is Literature?

What is Literature?
Title What is Literature? PDF eBook
Author Mark Robson
Publisher John Wiley & Sons
Pages 632
Release 2020-04-13
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1405182946

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An essential guide to understanding literary theory and criticism in the European tradition What is Literature? A Critical Anthology explores the most fundamental question in literary studies. ‘What is literature?’ is the name of a problem that emerges with the idea of literature in European modernity. This volume offers a cross-section of modern literary theory and reflects on the history of thinking about literature as a specific form. What is Literature? reveals how ideas of the literary draw on the foundations of Western thought in ancient Greece and Rome, charting the emergence of modern literature in the eighteenth century, and including selections from the present state of the art. The anthology includes the work of leading writers and critics of the last two thousand years including Plato, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, Edward Said, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Jacques Rancière, and many others. The book is an insightful examination of the nature of literature, its meanings and values, functions and forms, provocations and mysteries. What is Literature? brings together in one volume influential and intriguing essays that show our enduring fascination with the idea of literature. This important guide: Contains a broad selection of the most significant texts on the topic of literature Includes leading writers from ancient times to the most recent thinkers on literature and criticism Encourages readers to reflect on the varied meanings of “literature” What is Literature? A Critical Anthology is a unique collection of texts that will appeal to every student and scholar of literature and literary criticism in the European tradition.

A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia

A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia
Title A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia PDF eBook
Author Richard T. Gray
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Pages 392
Release 2005-08-30
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0313061424

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Known for depicting alienation, frustration, and the victimization of the individual by impenetrable bureaucracies, Kafka's works have given rise to the term Kafkaesque. This encyclopedia details Kafka's life and writings. Included are more than 800 alphabetically arranged entries on his works, characters, family members and acquaintances, themes, and other topics. Most of the entries cite works for further reading, and the Encyclopedia closes with a selected, general bibliography.

Mediamorphosis

Mediamorphosis
Title Mediamorphosis PDF eBook
Author Shai Biderman
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 373
Release 2016-02-26
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 0231850891

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The idea of a visual manifestation of the work of Franz Kafka was denied by many—first and foremost by Kafka himself, who famously urged his publisher to avoid an image of an insect on the cover of Metamorphosis. Be that as it may, it is unlikely that such a central progenitor of twentieth-century art and thought as Kafka can be fully understood without reference to the revolutionary artistic medium of his century: cinema. Mediamorphosis compiles articles by some of today's leading forces in the scholarship of Kafka as well as film studies to provide a thorough investigation of the reciprocal relations between Kafka's work and the cinematic medium. The volume approaches the theoretical integration of Kafka and cinema via such issues as the cinematic qualities in Kafka's prose and the possibility of a visual manifestation of the Kafkaesque. Alongside these debates, the book investigates the capacity of cinema to incorporate and express the unique qualities of a Kafkaesque world through an analysis of cinematic adaptations of Kafka's prose, such as Michael Haneke's The Castle (1997) and Straub-Huillet's Class Relations (1984), as well as films that carry a more subtle relation to Kafka's oeuvre, such as the cinematic works of David Cronenberg, the films of the Coen brothers, Chris Marker's "film-essay," Charlie Chaplin's tramp, and others.

Kafka and the Universal

Kafka and the Universal
Title Kafka and the Universal PDF eBook
Author Arthur Cools
Publisher Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Pages 282
Release 2016-07-25
Genre Foreign Language Study
ISBN 3110457431

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Kafka’s work has been attributed a universal significance and is often regarded as the ultimate witness of the human condition in the twentieth century. Yet his work is also considered paradigmatic for the expression of the singular that cannot be subsumed under any generalization. This paradox engenders questions not only concerning the meaning of the universal as it manifests itself in (and is transformed by) Kafka’s writings but also about the expression of the singular in literary fiction as it challenges the opposition between the universal and the singular. The contributions in this volume approach these questions from a variety of perspectives. They are structured according to the following issues: ambiguity as a tool of deconstructing the pre-established philosophical meanings of the universal; the concept of the law as a major symbol for the universal meaning of Kafka’s writings; the presence of animals in Kafka’s texts; the modernist mode of writing as challenge of philosophical concepts of the universal; and the meaning and relevance of the universal in contemporary Kafka reception. This volume examines central aspects of the interplay between philosophy and literature.