AP/IB English: Major Works Data Sheet Title: The Metamorphosis Author: Franz Kafka Date of Publication:1915 Genre: fiction Biographical information about the author 1833-1924 Born into a middle class German speaking Jewish family in Prague. Antagonistic relationship with his father. Close relationship with sister: Ottla Sent to German Schools‚ good academically Best friend was ‚ Max Brod Family used him for his money Had clinical depression‚ social anxiety mental instability and tuberculosis
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net. Schubert‚ Franz. Fantasy C Major “Wanderer-Fantasie” (D 760). Edited for the first time from the autograph; with fingering added by Paul Badura-Skoda. Wien: Wiener Urtext Edition‚ 1973. Schubert‚ Franz. Fantasy in C‚ op. 15‚ D. 760 (Wanderer Fantasy). Alfred Brendel‚ piano. Recorded November 1971. CD: Philips 420 664-2. 1989. Schubert‚ Franz. Fantasy in C‚ op. 15‚ D. 760 (Wanderer Fantasy). Arthur Rubinstein‚ piano. Recorded in 1965. CD: BMG 09026-63054-2. 1999. Schubert‚ Franz. Fantasy in C
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The City Coat of Arm’s is a short story written by Franz Kafka which tells the story of the Tower of Babel in a different fashion. Although the topic is the same‚ Kafka tries to show the impossibility of building the tower because of the human nature by analyzing the power‚ conflict‚ unity and freedom ideas in a philosophical way. Apart from content‚ contextual information such as the original story in the Bible is useful to elaborate the impossibility. At first glance‚ it can be stated that Kafka
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Cited: Wiesel‚ Elie. Night. New York: Hill and Wang‚ 2006.Printed Kafka‚ Franz. The Metamorphosis. Columbis‚ Ohio: The McGraw – Hill Companies‚ 2000.Printed
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Cited: Kafka‚ Franz. Metamorphosis. London: Penguin‚ 2006. Print. Kahn‚ Michael. Basic Freud: Psychoanalytic Thought for the Twenty First Century. New York: Basic‚ 2002. Print. Storr‚ Anthony. Freud: Anthony Storr. Oxford: Oxford UP‚ 2001. Print.
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Cited: Charters‚ Ann. "Reading Short Stories." The Story and Its Writer: An Introduction to Short Fiction. Boston‚ MA: Bedford/St. Martins‚ 2011. 1077-081. Print. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Dir. Terry Gilliam. 1998. DVD. Kafka‚ Franz. “In the Penal Colony.” The Complete Stories. New York‚ NY: Schocken Books Inc‚ 1971. 140-167. Print.
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In Franz Kafka’s "A Hunger Artist" and in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s " A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings‚" an understanding of the cruelty of mankind is revealed through an examination of the themes and the characters in both of their stories. Although these stories are both written in two different styles‚ there are a few common threads within them that make them interesting to compare. By comparing these two stories one is able to fully understand the struggles incurred by those individuals who
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having the general and piano instruction‚ his interest started to blossom‚ making Schumann have devotion for music. Not only did Schumann developed an interest in the music field but was also influenced by the great works of Ludwig van Beethoven‚ Franz Schubert‚ and Felix Mendelssohn. By the time he was 16‚ his father died and that same month
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“A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka is a short story that has a lot more to it than meets the eye. At first glance‚ this story seems to just be about a man obsessed with fasting‚ but this story has more to it; it has character parallels and symbolism. First‚ the hunger that the hunger artist willfully suffers has a double meaning: it refers to his urge of fasting as well as his unquenchable desire to defy human imagination by fasting indefinitely. Driven to relinquish the nourishment that the rest
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Suubi N Musisi Mr. Miller AP English Lit 3 December 2013 Magical Realism Magic realism or magical realism is an art form where magic elements are a natural part in an otherwise mundane‚ realistic environment. (Faris‚ Wendy B. and Lois Parkinson Zamora‚ Introduction to Magical Realism: Theory‚ History‚ Community‚ pp. 5) Although it is most commonly used as a literary form‚ magic realism also applies to film and the visual arts. Professor Matthew Strecher defines magic realism as "what happens
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