[Cambridge Companions to Literature 01] • The Cambridge Companion to Kafka
- Authors
- Preece, Julian & Julian Preece & Julian Preece
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Tags
- reference , philosophy
- ISBN
- 9780521663144
- Date
- 2002-02-21T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 2.65 MB
- Lang
- en
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.