- Hardcover: 346 pages
- Publisher: University of California Press; illustrated edition edition (10 Feb 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0520219090
- ISBN-13: 978-0520219090
- Product Dimensions: 23.7 x 16.4 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,745,538 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"Contribute[s] many insights and food for thought in a question, the relation of culture to territory, with which we are, as recent events in Europe show only too well, still grappling."-Times Literary Supplement "A pioneering work of cultural history, whose self-reflexive and interdisciplinary approach will be of interest not only to specialists of Central European culture but also to a wider professional readership concerned with methodological and disciplinary issues."-Mary Gluck, Journal of Modern History "Working in between historical and formal literary analysis with great skill, [Spector] has produced a major contribution not just to German and German-Jewish studies but to the question of literature and formation of identity for us all."-The Nation "This admirably lucid, impressively well researched, and theoretically sophisticated book provides both a cultural history of Prague, focusing on its German-Jewish writers, and a broader context for reading Franz Kafka. It brings out the complex ways in which a 'minor' literature has a powerful if problematic political import."-Dominick LaCapra, Cornell University
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"[I]t . . . contribute[s] many insights and food for thought in a question, the relation of culture to territory, with which we are, as recent events in Europe show only too well, still grappling."--"Times Literary Supplement
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The terms "setting" and "background" are unfortunate, in that they imply the existence of a fixed picture or frame against which a set of similarly stable objects can be understood. Read the first page
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7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
a different reading of kafka
24 April 2000
Format:Hardcover
Spector does a brilliant job in reading Kafka together with the other members of what he calls as the Prague circle. The book is challenging to read and it requires a certain level of acquintenance with the field and some German perhaps. In any case, it gives you a different perspective to understand the cirisis within the Prague circle to which Kafka is also included. Territory, territorialization, reterritorialization and deterritorialization cna be considered as the key processes one must understand in reading the book. Even though it seems somewhat consfusing from this Spector eloquently argues and proves his thesis.
5 of 11 people found the following review helpful
gregor samsa
6 May 2000
Format:Hardcover
A well documented and beautifully written book on the jewish writers,known as the prague circle, at the beginning of the twentieth century. It captures their identity struggle in a political and cultural prague. Spector gives his readers a treat by unmasking an enigmatic Kafka. We are able to perhaps know a more tender man behind the desk. We can now imagine how Gregor's creator felt. This alone was worth waiting for.
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