Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Siecle

by Scott Spector

Book Overview

Scott Spector's adventurous cultural history maps for the first time the "territories" carved out by German-Jewish intellectuals living in Prague at the dawn of the twentieth century. Spector explores the social, cultural, and ideological contexts in which Franz Kafka and his contemporaries flourished, revealing previously unseen relationships between politics and culture. His incisive readings of a broad array of German writers feature the work of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520236920
• ISBN13: 9780520236929
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 345 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"