Auteur: Clayton Koelb

In the first book to study Franz Kafka from the perspective of modern rhetorical theory, Clayton Koelb explores such questions as how Kafka understood the reading process, how he thematized the probl …

Known for depicting alienation, frustration, and the victimization of the individual by impenetrable bureaucracies, Kafka’s works have given rise to the term Kafkaesque. This encyclopedia details Kaf …

Reading as key to the mysterious relation between lifeless material bodies and living, animate beings in Romantic fiction and thought. What is not Life that really is? asked Coleridge, struggling, li …

New essays providing an overview of the major movements, genres, and authors of 19th-century German literature in social and political context. This volume provides an overview of the major movements …