Metamorphosis : Translations, Backgrounds, and Contexts, Criticism
Metamorphosis : Translations, Backgrounds, and Contexts, Criticism
- ISBN 13:
9780393967975
- ISBN 10:
0393967972
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 02/17/1996
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Newer Edition
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Summary
The novella is fully annotated and is accompanied by selected textual variants. Backgrounds and Contexts introduces readers to The Metamorphosis in the richest possible setting. The links between the author's life and his work are explored through an examination of his personal writings. Kafka's letters and diary entries illuminate the creative process behind his portrait of Gregor Samsa, his family, and their nightmarish ordeal. Criticism collects seven essays from the period 1970-95 representing the most important currents in literary theory#xE2;#x80;#x94;semiotics, feminism, identity philosophy, New Historicism, and post-Freudian cultural psychoanalysis. The essays offer a variety of perspectives on the novella by Iris Bruce, Nina Pelikan Straus, Kevin W. Sweeney, Mark Anderson, Hartmut Binder, Eric Santner, and Stanley Corngold. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.