Franz Kafka's The metamorphosis / edited & with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Other Title:

Metamorphosis

Publication:

New York : Chelsea House, c2007.

Series:

Bloom's guides

Format/Description:

Book
87 p. ; 23 cm.

Subjects:

Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. Verwandlung.

Contents:

Biographical sketch
The story behind the story
List of characters
Summary and analysis
Critical views
Mark M. Anderson on the bug as metaphor
Stanley Corngold on the distortion of metaphor
George Gibeon compares The metamorphosis with The judgment
M. Elizabeth Macandrew on the father/son reversal
Philip H. Rhein compares Kafka with artist Alfred Kubin
Michael Rowe on themes in The metamorphosis
Michael P. Ryan on the name Samsa
Mark Spilka on Kafka's predecessors
Peter Stine on familial relationships
Allen Thiher on misrepresentation in The metamorphosis
Works by Franz Kafka.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 75-78) and index.

Contributor:

Bloom, Harold.

ISBN:

0791092984 (hardcover)
9780791092989 (hardcover)

OCLC:

70836771

Online:

Table of contents only
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0618/2006025342.html

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