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BL
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1008830
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b763200
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| Title & Author
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Franz Kafka /\ edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
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| Edition Statement
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New ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Bloom's Literary Criticism,, ©2010.
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| Series Statement
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Bloom's modern critical views
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| Page. NO
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1 online resource (vii, 235 pages).
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| ISBN
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1438131089
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: 9781438131085
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1604138068
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9781604138061
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Kafka's narrative: a matter of form / Anthony Thorlby -- Kafka and modernism / Walter H. Sokel -- Text that was never a story: symmetry and disaster in "A Country Doctor" / Henry Sussman -- The impossibility of crows / Stephen D. Dowden -- Franz Kafka: wrenching scripture / Robert Alter -- Allotria and Excreta in "In the Penal Colony" / Stanley Corngold -- Tradition and betrayal in "Das Urteil" / Russell A. Berman -- Kafka imagines his readers: the rhetoric of "Josefine die Sängerin" and "Der Bau" / Clayton Koelb -- Kafka's antitheatrical gestures / Martin Puchner -- Kafka / Patrick Reilly -- Franz Kafka's Die Verwandlung: transformation, metaphor, and the perils of assimilation / Simon Ryan.
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| Abstract
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Franz Kafka's visionary fiction offers an unforgettable rendering of the anxiety and alienation prevalent in 20th-century Western society. This collection discusses the Kafka's works "The Trial" and "The Metamorphosis". It includes an introductory essay, a bibliography, a chronology of the author's life, and an index for reference.
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| Subject
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Kafka, Franz,1883-1924-- Criticism and interpretation.
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Kafka, Franz,1883-1924
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| Subject
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- German.
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| Dewey Classification
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833/.912
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| LC Classification
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PT2621.A26Z7166 2010eb
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| Added Entry
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Bloom, Harold.
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