Kafka's narrators : a study of his stories and sketches / Roy Pascal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pascal, Roy, 1904-1980.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Anglica Germanica. Series 2

Anglica Germanica, series 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924--Criticism and interpretation.

Kafka, Franz.

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Criticism and interpretation.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

251 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0521243653 :

OCLC:

7732381