Overview :Goethe's themes of unrequited love, the pain of rejection, deepening despair, and their tragic consequences are as relevant today as when th... Read More
Overview :The twenty-one original essays in this volume offer a rigorous reconsideration of modern forms of paternity and friendship as they emerge in... Read More
Overview :Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine adds an original critical framework to the work begun by Stanley Corngold and Benno Wagner in their m... Read More
Overview :In Stanley Corngold's view, the themes and strategies of Kafka's fiction are generated by a tension between his concern for writing and his ... Read More
Overview :A unique look at Thomas Mann's intellectual and political transformation during the crucial years of his exile in the United States In Septe... Read More
Overview :On the night of September 22, 1912, Franz Kafka wrote his story "The Judgment," which came out of him "like a regular birth." This act of cr... Read More
Overview :Much recent critical theory has dismissed or failed to take seriously the question of the self. French theorists--such as Derrida, Barthes, ... Read More
Overview :Complex Pleasure deals with questions of literary feeling in eight major German writers--Lessing, Kant, H lderlin, Nietzsche, Musil, Kafka, ... Read More