Prague territories
Subtitle: national conflict and cultural innovation in Franz Kafka's fin de siècle
By: Scott Spector.
Series: Weimar and now ;; 21
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Berkeley, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
Subjects: Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 -- Homes and haunts -- Czech Republic -- Prague; German literature -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History and criticism; German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; German literature -- Jewish authors -- History and criticism; Judaism and literature -- Czech Republic; Prague (Czech Republic) -- Intellectual life
Description: "Scott Spector's 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 readings of a broad array of German writers feature the work of Kafka and the so-called Prague circle and encompass journalism, political theory, Zionism, and translation as well as literary program and practice."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-317) and index.