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- catalog abstract ""In 1916, Kafka writes of The Sugar Baron, a dime-store colonial adventure novel, "[it] affects me so deeply that I feel it is about myself, or as if it were the book of rules for my life." John Zilcosky reveals that this perhaps surprising statement - made by the sedentary, Prague-bound poet of modern isolation - is part of a network of remarks that exemplify Kafka's ongoing preoccupation with popular travel writing, exotic fantasy, and travel technology. Taking this biographical peculiarity as a starting point, Kafka's Travels elegantly re-reads Kafka's major works (Amerika, The Trial, In the Penal Colony, The Castle) through the lens of fin de siecle travel culture. Making use of previously unexplored literary and cultural materials - travel diaries, train schedules, tour guides, adventure novels - Zilcosky argues that Kafka's uniquely modern metaphorics of alienation emerge out of the author's complex encounter with the utopian travel discourses of his day. Zilcosky's series of close readings offers us vividly original perspectives on familiar texts and represents a major re-examination of Kafka's oeuvre."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b12718808.
- catalog created "2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2003.".
- catalog description ""In 1916, Kafka writes of The Sugar Baron, a dime-store colonial adventure novel, "[it] affects me so deeply that I feel it is about myself, or as if it were the book of rules for my life." John Zilcosky reveals that this perhaps surprising statement - made by the sedentary, Prague-bound poet of modern isolation - is part of a network of remarks that exemplify Kafka's ongoing preoccupation with popular travel writing, exotic fantasy, and travel technology. Taking this biographical peculiarity as a starting point, Kafka's Travels elegantly re-reads Kafka's major works (Amerika, The Trial, In the Penal Colony, The Castle) through the lens of fin de siecle travel culture.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-279) and index.".
- catalog description "Kafka's travels? -- Transcending the exotic: nostalgia, exoticism, and Kafka's early travel novel, "Richard and Samuel" -- The "America" novel: learning how to get lost -- Traveling at home: "The trial" and the exotic "Heimat" -- Savage travel: sadism and masochism in Kafka's "Penal colony" -- Of sugar barons and land surveyors: colonial visions in Schaffstein's "Little green books" and "The castle" -- The traffic of writing: technologies of intercourse in the "Letters to Milena" -- Travel, death, and the exotic voyage home: "The hunter Gracchus" -- Kafka's final journey.".
- catalog description "Making use of previously unexplored literary and cultural materials - travel diaries, train schedules, tour guides, adventure novels - Zilcosky argues that Kafka's uniquely modern metaphorics of alienation emerge out of the author's complex encounter with the utopian travel discourses of his day. Zilcosky's series of close readings offers us vividly original perspectives on familiar texts and represents a major re-examination of Kafka's oeuvre."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 289 p., [23] p. of plates :".
- catalog identifier "0312232810".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave Macmillan,".
- catalog subject "833/.912 21".
- catalog subject "Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 Criticism and interpretation.".
- catalog subject "Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 Travel.".
- catalog subject "PT2621.A26 Z36 2003".
- catalog tableOfContents "Kafka's travels? -- Transcending the exotic: nostalgia, exoticism, and Kafka's early travel novel, "Richard and Samuel" -- The "America" novel: learning how to get lost -- Traveling at home: "The trial" and the exotic "Heimat" -- Savage travel: sadism and masochism in Kafka's "Penal colony" -- Of sugar barons and land surveyors: colonial visions in Schaffstein's "Little green books" and "The castle" -- The traffic of writing: technologies of intercourse in the "Letters to Milena" -- Travel, death, and the exotic voyage home: "The hunter Gracchus" -- Kafka's final journey.".
- catalog title "Kafka's travels : exoticism, colonialism, and the traffic of writing / John Zilcosky.".
- catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
- catalog type "text".