Franz Kafka's The metamorphosis / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

Series:

Modern critical interpretations

Modern critical interpretations.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Verwandlung.

Kafka, Franz.

Physical Description:

vi, 149 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1988.

Summary:

-- Presents the most important 20th-century criticism on major works from The Odyssey through modern literature-- The critical essays reflect a variety of schools of criticism-- Contains critical biographies, notes on the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an index

Contents:

Gregor Samsa and modern spirituality / Martin Greenberg

Metamorphosis of the metaphor / Stanley Corngold

The dramatic in Kafka's Metamorphosis / Evelyn Torton Beck

The metamorphosis / Ronald Gray

Die Verwandlung, Freud, and the chains of Odysseus / David Eggenschwiler

The impersonal narrator of The metamorphosis / Roy Pascal

From Marx to myth : the structure and function of self-alienation in Kafka's Metamorphosis / Walter H. Sokel

Kafka and Sacher-Masoch / Mark M. Anderson.

Notes:

"A representative selection of the best critical interpretations of Kafka's crucial narrative, The metamorphosis"--Editor's note.

Includes index.

Bibliography: pages 139-141.

ISBN:

1555460704

OCLC:

16130143