Franz Kafka / Judaism In His Works : A 5 page paper
looking at this important German writer of the twentieth
century in terms of the Jewish context of his works. The
paper argues that his frequent allusions to deformity, illness,
and guilt mirror his own self-perception, resulting from the
anti-Semitic stereotypes of the late nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries. Kafka’s work entitled “Metamorphosis”
is emphasized. Bibliography lists five sources. KBkafka.wps Franz Kafka’s “Country Doctor” / As A Definitive Myth :
A 5 page discussion of the short story “A Country Doctor”
by the German writer Franz Kafka. The paper shows how
this extremely complex story unfolds like a nightmare and
actually functions as a kind of modern myth. Bibliography
lists seven sources. Kafka3.wps
Franz Kafka's “The Hunger Artist” : A 4 page paper
discussing the short story, The Hunger Artist. The writer
analyzes Kafka's tongue in cheek style and humorous look at
the life of a starving artist. No additional sources cited.
Kafka.wps
Franz Kafka’s “The Hunger Artist” / Marxist
Rhetoric :
A 5 page paper examining rhetoric in Franz Kafka's The
Hunger Artist. The writer discusses various points of
Kafka's story from a Marxist/materialist point of view. No
additional sources cited. Kafka2.wps
Franz Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis” : A 10 page
paper
discussing the book by Franz Kafka entitled “The
Metamorphosis.” Gregor, the man who has found himself
transformed into an insect one morning, is a man who has
little self confidence and believes himself useless to society
in general. Kafka has used the hideousness of his present
condition to even further illustrate how low a man this
Gregor is. Kafka also uses Gregor’s present external
condition to demonstrate how Gregor feels about his family
members, his work, and himself. What was evident before
becomes strikingly so based on the fact that Gregor is now a
grotesque insect. No additional sources cited. Kafka.wps
Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” / Character Analysis
:
2 page discussion of loneliness in the character Gregor from
Kafka's "Metamorphosis." No Bibliography. Gregor.wps
Franz Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” / Injustice :
This 5 page
research paper argues that Gregor Samsa’s transformation
from man to insect in Franz Kafka’s short story,
“Metamorphosis,” was completely unjust, in terms of his
family’s reaction to his condition, and their ultimate betrayal
and rejection of him. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Franzk.wps
Franz Kafka / “Metamorphosis” : A 5 page essay in
which
the writer posits that Kafka’s story is allegorical for the
creationist evolution of the planet Earth, and also for the
evolution of religious beliefs from antiquity to Christianity.
Bibliography lists 1 source. Metakaf.wps
Kafka’s Stories Compared : This 9 page paper describes
and
compares the Franz Kafka stories, "The Judgement" (1913)
and "The Metamorphosis" (1915). Metajudg.wps
Kafka as Modernist : A 5 page paper looking at two of Franz
Kafka’s posthumously-published novels, The Trial and The
Castle, showing how they reflect the concerns of European
modernism. The paper also notes that while their tone was a
little too bleak and existentialist for most Americans of the
Modernist period, Americans today are rediscovering Kafka
because he perfectly reflects the sense of meaninglessness so
pervasive today. No additional sources cited. Kafmod.wps
Modernism and the Novel : This 5 page report discusses the
transformation of modernism in terms of Kafka’s “The Trial”
and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby.” The inherent
differences of writers in the same modernist period but in
Europe compared to America is also discussed. Bibliography
lists only the two works themselves as sources. Modno.wps
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