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- catalog abstract ""Elizabeth Boa's new study of Kafka centres on gender. It shows how, in an age of reactionary hysteria, Kafka rejected patriarchy yet exploited women as literary raw material. Drawing on Kafka's letters to his fiancee and to the Czech journalist, Milena Jesenska, Boa illuminates the transformation of details of everyday life into the strange yet uncannily familiar signs which are Kafka's stylistic hallmark." "Kafka: Gender, Class, and Race in the Letters and Fictions argues that gender cannot be isolated from other dimensions of identity. The study relates Kafka's alienating images of the male body and fascinated disgust of female sexuality to the body-culture of the early twentieth century and to interfusing militaristic, racist, gender, and class ideologies. This is the context too for the stereotypes of the New Woman, the massive Matriarch, the lower-class seductress, and the assimilating Jew. The book explores Kafka's exploitation yet subversion of such stereotypes through the brilliant literary devices which assure his place in the modernist canon."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b9637462.
- catalog created "1996.".
- catalog date "1996".
- catalog date "1996.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1996.".
- catalog description ""Elizabeth Boa's new study of Kafka centres on gender. It shows how, in an age of reactionary hysteria, Kafka rejected patriarchy yet exploited women as literary raw material. Drawing on Kafka's letters to his fiancee and to the Czech journalist, Milena Jesenska, Boa illuminates the transformation of details of everyday life into the strange yet uncannily familiar signs which are Kafka's stylistic hallmark." "Kafka: Gender, Class, and Race in the Letters and Fictions argues that gender cannot be isolated from other dimensions of identity. The study relates Kafka's alienating images of the male body and fascinated disgust of female sexuality to the body-culture of the early twentieth century and to interfusing militaristic, racist, gender, and class ideologies. This is the context too for the stereotypes of the New Woman, the massive Matriarch, the lower-class seductress, and the assimilating Jew. The book explores Kafka's exploitation yet subversion of such stereotypes through the brilliant literary devices which assure his place in the modernist canon."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-297) and index.".
- catalog description "Reading Kafka -- Modernity and its Discontents: Questions of Identity -- Letters from a Bachelor: Kafka's Letters to Felice Bauer -- An Intercourse of Ghosts: Kafka's Letters to Milena Jesenska -- The Double Taboo: The Male Body in the Judgment, The Metamorphosis, and In the Penal Colony -- The Body of Literature: Kafka's Artist Stories -- The Decaying Law: Discourses of Gender, Class, and Race in The Trial -- Feminist Approaches to The Castle -- Index".
- catalog extent "x, 304 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Kafka.".
- catalog identifier "019815819X (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Kafka.".
- catalog issued "1996".
- catalog issued "1996.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog relation "Kafka.".
- catalog subject "833/.912 20".
- catalog subject "Authors, Austrian 20th century Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Gender identity in literature.".
- catalog subject "Jews in literature.".
- catalog subject "Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 Correspondence.".
- catalog subject "Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 Political and social views.".
- catalog subject "PT2621.A26 Z5963 1996".
- catalog subject "Sex in literature.".
- catalog subject "Social classes in literature.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Reading Kafka -- Modernity and its Discontents: Questions of Identity -- Letters from a Bachelor: Kafka's Letters to Felice Bauer -- An Intercourse of Ghosts: Kafka's Letters to Milena Jesenska -- The Double Taboo: The Male Body in the Judgment, The Metamorphosis, and In the Penal Colony -- The Body of Literature: Kafka's Artist Stories -- The Decaying Law: Discourses of Gender, Class, and Race in The Trial -- Feminist Approaches to The Castle -- Index".
- catalog title "Kafka : gender, class and race in the letters and fictions / Elizabeth Boa.".
- catalog type "Records and correspondence. fast".
- catalog type "text".