| Kafka's the Castle and the Critical Imagination Contributor(s): Dowden, Stephen D. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1571130047 ISBN-13: 9781571130044 Publisher: Camden House (NY) OUR PRICE: $76.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 1995 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - German |
| Dewey: 833.912 |
| LCCN: 94046933 |
| Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" (0.92 lbs) 176 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Kafka's final, unfinished novel, The Castle, remains one of the most celebrated yet most impenetrable masterpieces of modernist fiction, and a focus of literary criticsm and theory. In this chronological survey of the critical attention it has attracted, both academic and non-academic, Professor Dowden emphasises the acts of critical imagination which have shaped our image and understanding of Kafka and the novel. He explores the historical and cultural milieus of criticism, from the Weimar Era of Max Brod and Walter Benjamin to Lionel Trilling's Cold War to postmodern multiculturalism and 'cultural studies', showing how and why The Castle has aroused strong opinions in each generation of criticism; he also accounts for those moments in which the novel escapes from an historically anchored understanding into the realm of the universal. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dowden, Stephen D.: - Professor of Germanic Languages, Chair at Brandeis University, Boston |