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Material Conditions of Writing | Willa Muir | WM
had conceived and begun work on this novel by 1926, planning to set it in Montrose, her childhood town. Muir, Willa. Belonging. Hogarth Press. 125 Smith, Ali. “And Woman Created Woman: Carswell, Shepherd and Muir, and the Self-Made Woman”. Gendering the Nation: Studies in Modern Scottish Literature, edited by Christopher Whyte, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 25-47. 43 |
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 Features | Jo Shapcott | Epigraphs to particular poems quote Chaucer
, Swift
, Elizabeth Barrett
, Elizabeth Bishop
, Geoffrey Bateson
, and (most frequently) Elizabeth Hardwick
. The title-poem (called by a reviewer Kafka
esque) Wormald, Mark. “Making a virtue of double vision”. Times Literary Supplement, No. 4497, pp. 241-2. 642 |
Textual Features | Margaret Kennedy | Here Kennedy argues that entertainment and enjoyment are valuable aims for the novel. She maintains that the novelist is, in essence, a storyteller, but the storyteller-novelist has been excluded by a literary society that devalues... |
Textual Features | Ali Smith | Although certainly located in the Brechtian
tradition of epic theatre, with its political resonances and self-referentiality, it is likewise identifiable as theatre of the absurd (as AS
points out), Smith, Ali. “Just”. Shell Connections 2005: New Plays for Young People, Faber and Faber, pp. 275-24. 317 |
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 | 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 |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | WM
and Edwin Muir
published the first English translation of Franz Kafka
's unfinished novel The Castle (Die Schloss), six years after Kafka's death. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. under Kafka |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | WM
and her husband
published their third Kafka
translation: the unfinished novel The Trial (originally Der Prozess). Kafka had stopped work on it in 1916, but its first publication in German was not until... |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | Willa
and Edwin Muir
published their translation of Kafka
's third unfinished novel, America. “Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC. 81, under Franz Kafka British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | A translation by both WM
and Edwin Muir
of Kafka
's ground-breaking, modernist short story The Metamorphosis, written in 1912, was reprinted in a volume entitled Metamorphosis and Other Stories. “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | WM
and her husband are credited with having introduced the English-reading public to Franz Kafka
(1883-1924), who wrote in German. In addition to translating his three unfinished novels and a number of his short stories... |
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... |
Textual Production | Willa Muir | The Great Wall of China and Other Pieces, the next Kafka
translation by the Muirs, appeared in 1933. By the time they began this work they had increased their fees (after a considerable wrangle... |
Textual Production | Willa Muir |
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