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Occupation | Hannah Arendt | Her next task was the struggle to secure publication for manuscripts left in her keeping and that of her husband by Walter Benjamin
. She also needed work, and became first a literary reviewer and... |
Textual Production | Hannah Arendt | Authors or politicians whom HA
wrote about in articles, reviews, or editions (excluding those essays reprinted in Men in Dark Times) include Konrad Adenauer
, W. H. Auden
, Wilhelm Dilthey
, Waldemar Gurian |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | W. H. Auden | It is no wonder than that Auden is an entertaining critic, with a penchant for the gnomic whether in titles (his essay on detective stories is called The Guilty Vicarage; his essay on Kafka |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caroline Blackwood | The novel is epistolary; its protagonist is called only K.—with perhaps some memory of the organizational victim-protagonist Josef K. in Franz Kafka
's The Trial (first translated into English by Willa
and Edwin Muir |
Literary responses | Marjorie Bowen | Critic Edward Wagenknecht
, believing that the author's creative powers were at their peak at the very end of her life, Wagenknecht, Edward. Seven Masters of Supernatural Fiction. Greenwood Press. 165 |
Literary responses | Marjorie Bowen | MB
was admired in her own day by others who prided themselves on the popular touch in their writing: Mark Twain
, Walter de la Mare
, Compton Mackenzie
, and Hugh Walpole
, who... |
Textual Features | Brigid Brophy | There is a strong flavour of Kafka
about this comic parable both of a family and of a state. The royal family of Evarchia (somewhere in contemporary Middle or Eastern Europe) has an authoritarian father... |
Textual Production | Bryher | Desmond MacCarthy
had launched Life and Letters in June 1928; it issued its last number this month, and Bryher's new publication first appeared in September. It merged it with the London Mercury after May 1939... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Carson | Organized into thirty-four short chapters on ancient Greek love lyrics, this work is a scholarly analysis of eros as an elemental metaphysical structure of human life. In characteristically eccentric fashion, AC
begins her study of... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Anne Carson | AC
's contributions include rendering Fragment 286 by the Greek poet Ibykos
in the manner successively of various more modern voices: John Donne
, Samuel Beckett
, Franz Kafka
, an FBI
report on Bertolt Brecht |
Intertextuality and Influence | Hélène Cixous | Other texts that HC
considers here are Franz Kafka
's Before the Law (a segment of The Trial), James Joyce
's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and seven works... |
Literary responses | Ivy Compton-Burnett | During the early part of ICB
's career she was little regarded or understood. Raymond Mortimer
was one of the first to perceive her quality, and she quickly began to attract the attention of younger... |
Literary responses | Anna Kavan | |
Literary responses | Anna Kavan | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jackie Kay | One story, Shell, draws from Kafka
's Metamorphosis, as an overweight single mother grows a shell and becomes a tortoise. Almost all of the stories focus on women, and the most optimistic concern... |