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Known for depicting alienation, frustration, and the victimization of the individual by impenetrable bureaucracies, Kafka's works have given rise to t...
Franz Kafka is one of the most widely taught, and read, writers in world literature. Readers encountering texts like 'The Metamorphosis' and The Trial...
Literature, Philosophy, and the Theory of Life in Europe's Romantic Age
Reading as key to the mysterious relation between lifeless material bodies and living, animate beings in Romantic fiction and thought.What is not Life...
Ancient History in Modern Novels
Legendary Figures examines revolutionary views of the past that have played a crucial role in European and American literature of the last 150 years. ...
Rhetoric and the Literary Imagination
Where do writers of fiction get their ideas? Clayton Koelb here takes issue with those who regard inspiration or imitation as primary forces influenci...
The Passion of Reading
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