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Franz Kafka


Free Download Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom, "Franz Kafka"
English | 2010 | pages: 244 | ISBN: 1604138068 | PDF | 2,0 mb
Franz Kafka’s visionary fiction offers an unforgettable rendering of the anxiety and alienation prevalent in 20th-century Western society. This collection discusses the Kafka’s works The Trial and The Metamorphosis. It includes an introductory essay, a bibliography, a chronology of the author’s life, and an index for reference.

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Franz Joseph and Elisabeth The Last Great Monarchs of Austria-Hungary


Free Download Karen Owens, "Franz Joseph and Elisabeth: The Last Great Monarchs of Austria-Hungary"
English | ISBN: 0786476745 | 2013 | 200 pages | EPUB | 656 KB
In 1848, an 18-year-old boy assumed the throne of Austria, one of the most powerful countries in Europe. He would be its last significant emperor, the only monarch to serve two countries, and the last cogent head of the prestigious Habsburg dynasty. Emperor Franz Joseph’s reign was marked by revolutions, often fueled by rising liberalism and nationalism, and wars orchestrated by conquering architects such as Napoleon, Metternich, and Bismarck. This book gives attention to these political and cultural events, but it is moreover a biography of Emperor Franz Joseph and his enigmatic wife, Empress Elisabeth.

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The Routledge Handbook of Franz Brentano and the Brentano School


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English | ISBN: 1138023442 | 2017 | 400 pages | EPUB | 1334 KB
Both through his own work and that of his students, Franz Clemens Brentano (1838-1917) had an often underappreciated influence on the course of twentieth- and twenty-first-century philosophy. The Routledge Handbook of Franz Brentano and the Brentano School offers full coverage of Brentano’s philosophy and his influence. It contains 38 brand-new essays from an international team of experts that offer a comprehensive view of Brentano’s central research areas―philosophy of mind, metaphysics, and value theory―as well as of the principal figures shaped by Brentano’s school of thought. A general introduction serves as an overview of Brentano and the contents of the volume, and three separate bibliographies point students and researchers on to further avenues of inquiry.

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Selected Stories by Franz Kafka


Free Download Selected Stories by Franz Kafka, translated by Mark Harman
English | May 21, 2024 | ISBN: 0674737989 | True EPUB | 304 pages | 21.1 MB
"It’s an extremely handsome, well-designed book, and you couldn’t ask for a better introduction to Kafka…If you’ve never read Kafka before or if you already love him, you’ll still want Harman’s Selected Stories."

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Metamorphoses In Search of Franz Kafka [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CVSBZTPX | 2024 | 7 hours and 14 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 402 MB
Author: Karolina Watroba
Narrator: Deborah Balm

In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of forty, customers all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts and monstrous insects. Who, exactly, was Franz Kafka? Karolina Watroba, the first Germanist ever elected as a fellow of Oxford’s All Souls College, will tell Kafka’s story beyond the boundaries of language, time, and space, traveling from the Prague of Kafka’s birth through the work of contemporary writers in East Asia, whose award-winning novels are, in part, homages to the great man himself. Metamorphoses presents a non-chronological journey through Kafka’s life, combining literary scholarship with the responses of his audiences throughout the last century. It is a both an exploration of Kafka’s life and an exciting new way of approaching literary history.

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The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 2 Franz Boas, James Teit, and Early Twentieth-Century Salish Ethnography


Free Download Franz Boas, "The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 2: Franz Boas, James Teit, and Early Twentieth-Century Salish Ethnography "
English | ISBN: 1496235711 | 2024 | 1056 pages | PDF | 8 MB
The Franz Boas Papers, Volume 2 explores the development of the ethnography of Salishan-speaking societies on the North American Plateau as revealed through the correspondence between Franz Boas and the Scottish-born James Teit, who married into an Interior Salish family and community and became fluent in the Nlaka’pamux language. The letters between Teit (1864-1922) and Boas (1858-1942) chronicle Teit’s varied career as an ethnographer, from shortly after his initial meeting with Boas in 1894 until Teit’s death at the age of fifty-eight. A postscript documents Boas’s contribution to Teit’s legacy through the posthumous publication of the manuscripts Teit left unfinished at his death.

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Franz Schubert The Fragmentary Piano Sonatas


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English | ISBN: 3515131698 | 2022 | 418 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This study of the fragmentary piano sonatas by Franz Schubert, composed between 1815 and 1825, offers an individual analysis of each work, based upon a tripartite approach. It focuses on the aesthetic-philosophical nature of fragmentary works of art, the philological study of the extant manuscripts as well as recorded notational material and musical analyses. This research includes a new perspective of Schubert’s commitment to questions of form and compositional renewal and individuality. The engagement with the incomplete, unfinished and fragmentary piano sonatas makes it possible to see the paths towards the later, more well-known compositions. In these works of the early nineteenth century, the working-processes and musical innovations of the composer Franz Schubert are seen as a development of a highly personal stylistic and formal integrity and independence over the course of a productive and innovative decade.

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