Kafka’s Italian Progeny /

Kafka’s Italian Progeny / / Saskia Elizabeth Ziolkowski.

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While many scholars of world literature view national literary traditions as resolved and stable, Kafka’s Italian Progeny takes the fluid identity of the modern Italian tradition as an opportunity to reconsider its dimensions and influencers. Exploring a distinct but unexamined Kafkan tradition in m...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter ACUP Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Ziolkowski, Saskia Elizabeth,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©2020
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Toronto Italian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Kafka, World Literature, and the Italian Literary Landscape
  • 1. Amerika in Italy: Kafka’s Realism, Pavese, and Calvino
  • 2. Dreams of Short Fiction after Kafka: Lalla Romano, Giorgio Manganelli, and Antonio Tabucchi
  • 3. Processi without End: The Mysteries of Dino Buzzati and Paola Capriolo
  • 4. Kafka’s Parental Bonds: The Family as Institution in Italian Literature
  • 5. The Human-Animal Boundary, Italian Style: Kafka’s Red Peter in Conversation with Svevo’s Argo, Morante’s Bella, and Landolfi’s Tombo
  • Epilogue: Calvino’s Kafka and Kafka’s Italy
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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