Understanding Kafka: Text, Theory, and the Modern World

3 credits · Undergraduate

Introduces Franz Kafka's life and major works - The Metamorphosis, The Trial, The Castle, Amerika, plus stories, parables, diaries, and letters - within fin-de-siècle Prague and the late Habsburg Empire. Examines Kafka as formal innovator, German-Jewish writer, bureaucrat, and correspondent. Emphasis on close reading. No prior knowledge required. Taught in English. [3] (HCA) (CORE C, E) (LE HFA)