Roy Pascal, Pascal

Kafka's Narrators

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A study which manages to cut through many previous critical controversies on Kafka by paying scrupulous attention to matters of literary and stylistic technique.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 371g
• ISBN-13: 9780521287654
• ISBN-10: 0521287650
• Artikelnr.: 33157201

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: narrator and story
1. The Kafka story: structure and meaning
2. The impersonal narrator of the early tales: 'The judgement' ('Das Urteil'), 'The metamorphosis' ('Die Verwandlung')
3. Officer versus traveller: 'In the penal colony' ('In der Strafkolonie')
4. The breakdown of the impersonal narrator: 'Blumfeld, an elderly bachelor' ('Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle')
5. The identifiable narrator of 'A hunger artist' ('Ein Hungerkünstler')
6. Third-person and first-person fables and parables
7. Last tales: the stories with human characters
8. Last tales: the animal stories
Epilogue
Notes
Index.