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    <![CDATA[Kafka: A Very Short Introduction]]>
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    <![CDATA[Franz Kafka is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the last century.  During his lifetime he worked as a civil servant and published only a handful of short stories, the best known being The Transformation.  His other three novels, published after his death, helped to found his reputation as a uniquely perceptive interpreter of the twentieth century. Discussing both Kafka's crisis-ridden life and the subtleties of his art, Ritchie Robertson provides an intriguing and accessible look at the life of this fascinating author.  Using Metamorphosis as a recurring example, Robertson shows how Kafka's work explores such characteristically modern themes as the place of the body in culture, the power of institutions over people, and the possibility of religion after Nietsche had proclaimed &quot;the death of God.&quot;]]>
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    <![CDATA[The German-Jewish Dialogue: An Anthology of Literary Texts, 1749-1993]]>
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    <![CDATA[`I love the German character more than anything else in the world, and my breast is an archive of German song'      So wrote  Heinrich Heine in 1824, adding: `It is likely that my Muse gave her German dress something of a foreign cut from annoyance with the German character'.  Here Heine sums up the ambivalent emotions of Jews who felt at home in German culture and yet, even in the age of emancipation, found Germany less than welcoming.  This anthology illustrates the history of Jews in Germany from the eighteenth century, when it was first proposed to give Jews civil rights, to the 1990's and the problems of living after the Holocaust. The texts include short stories, plays, poems, essays, letters and diary entries, all chosen for their literary merit as well as the light they shed on the relations between Jews in Germany and Austria and their Gentile fellow-citizens.  Ritchie Robertson's lucid introduction provides the necessary historical context and his translations make available in English in some cases for the first time - both Jewish writers on various aspects of Jewish experience and responses of Gentile writers to the Jews in their midst. Each is introduced by a short illuminating preface.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Cambridge Companion to Thomas Mann]]>
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    <![CDATA[Key dimensions of Thomas Mann's writing and life are explored in this collection of specially commissioned essays. In addition to introductory chapters on all the main works of fiction and the essays and diaries, there are four chapters examining Mann's oeuvre in relation to major themes. A final chapter looks at the pitfalls of translating Mann into English. The essays are well supported by supplementary material including a chronology of the period and detailed guides to further reading.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Kafka]]>
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    <![CDATA[&lt;DIV&gt;&lt;P style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;From a man who metamorphoses into an insect to a banker arrested on unspecified charges by a mysterious court, Franz Kafka’s fiction vividly evokes bizarre, almost surrealistic situations. Attending both to Kafka's crisis-ridden life and to the subtleties of his art, Ritchie Robertson shows how his work explores such characteristically modern themes as the place of the body in culture, the power of institutions over people, and the possibility of religion. The result is an accessible portrait of a fascinating author that helps us understand his perplexing, absorbing work.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Evariste-Desire De Parny, 'Le Paradis Perdu']]>
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    <![CDATA[Kafka: A Very Short Introduction]]>
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    <![CDATA[Franz Kafka is among the most intriguing and influential writers of the last century.  During his lifetime he worked as a civil servant and published only a handful of short stories, the best known being The Transformation.  His other three novels, published after his death, helped to found his reputation as a uniquely perceptive interpreter of the twentieth century. Discussing both Kafka's crisis-ridden life and the subtleties of his art, Ritchie Robertson provides an intriguing and accessible look at the life of this fascinating author.  Using Metamorphosis as a recurring example, Robertson shows how Kafka's work explores such characteristically modern themes as the place of the body in culture, the power of institutions over people, and the possibility of religion after Nietsche had proclaimed &quot;the death of God.&quot;]]>
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    <![CDATA[Heine]]>
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    <![CDATA[Kafka: Judaism, Politics, Literature]]>
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    <![CDATA[This major new study explores the historical and literary context of Kafka's writings and links them with his emerging sense of Jewish identity.  Emphasized throughout is kafka's concern with contemporary society, his distrust of its secular humanitarianism, and his yearning for a new kind of community: one based on religion.  Robertson points out that in Kafka's early writing, social themes as well as psychological and moral ones are prominent but that in the later fiction many allusions and images are drawn from jewish history and tradition.  His aphorisms-whose significance has been overlooked until now-are interpreted as a coherent and profound meditation on religion and society and as the intellectual framework for much of the fiction.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Vienna 1900 from Altenberg to Wittgenstein (Austrian Studies, 1)]]>
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    <![CDATA[The &quot;Jewish Question&quot; in German Literature, 1749-1939: Emancipation and Its Discontents]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Jewish Question in German Literature, 1749-1939 is an erudite and searching literary study of the uneasy position of the Jews in Germany and Austria from the first pleas for Jewish emancipation during the Enlightenment to the eve of the Holocaust.  Trying to avoid hindsight, and drawing on a wide range of literary texts, Ritchie Robertson offers a close examination of attempts to construct a Jewish identity suitable for an increasingly secular world.  He examines both literary portrayals of Jews by Gentile writers - whether antisemitic, friendly, or ambivalent - and efforts to reinvent Jewish identities by the Jews themselves, in response to antisemitism culminating in Zionism.  No other study by a single author deals with German-Jewish relations so comprehensively and over such a long period of literary history.  Robertson's new work will prove stimulating for anyone interested in the modern Jewish experience, as well as for scholars and students of German fiction, prose, and political culture.]]>
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