LIT 430 Advanced Seminar on Kafka Full Curriculum Program 2017/2018 Year - Prague

In this advanced seminar we will be studying the works of Franz Kafka and their critical reception. We will be considering Kafka within his biographical and socio-historical context as a Prague author, as well as approaching his works from several theoretical paradigms, ranging from the literary critics to psychoanalysts to social theorists, including Giorgio Agamben, Maurice Blanchot, Stanley Corngold, Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, Jacques Lacan, Niklas Luhmann and Slavoj Zizek. Primary texts studied will include the novels The Trial, The Castle (selections), the novella The Metamorphosis, and the stories The Judgment, A Country Doctor, A Report to an Academy, The Hunter Gracchus, Investigations of a Dog, The Burrow, Josephine, or the Mouse Singer and The Hunger Artist.