This link will take you to a written piece on Metamorphosis.
We must always be careful with our sources. The interweb is now so vast and contradictory that we must learn to rely on certain sources and treat new ones with caution.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A3023065
Post a response to this article.
Include: Some quotations from the article and your thoughts on them.
A comment on how you view the reliability of material from the BBS website.
Tuesday 25 January 2011
Wednesday 19 January 2011
Age is a state of mind...
Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka
Write a short discussion of this quotation relating it to the content and themes of Metamorphosis.
Tuesday 11 January 2011
Kafka on Literature
"Books are a narcotic"
How does Kafka's writing style operate on the reader to engage them with the narrative and the thematic content?
How does Kafka make the reader want to read and understand his work?
Is it fair to say that Metamorphosis has a dream-like quality to the writing?
Provide your thoughts on this quotation and these questions.
Tuesday 4 January 2011
Contextualising a Text
Metapmorphosis was published in 1915.
Some would say that it is impossible to fully appreciate the text without understanding something of the historical context in which it was written.
Complete some elementary research into the period. Look into the year it was written and the preceding few years. Remember that Kafka lived and worked in Prague.
It may be helpful to consider...
Art
Literature
World Affairs
War
Travel and Transport
Invention and Scientific Progress
Post some findings
Some would say that it is impossible to fully appreciate the text without understanding something of the historical context in which it was written.
Complete some elementary research into the period. Look into the year it was written and the preceding few years. Remember that Kafka lived and worked in Prague.
It may be helpful to consider...
Art
Literature
World Affairs
War
Travel and Transport
Invention and Scientific Progress
Post some findings
Critical Perspectives One
As we have discussed in class, texts can be viewed from many different critical perspectives. How a text is read will depend on who is reading it, where and when.
To begin with I would like you to complete some research into Sigmund Freud and Karl Gustav Jung.
What do you think a Freudian or Jungian reading of a text would involve? What angle / perspective would one approach the text from?
To begin with I would like you to complete some research into Sigmund Freud and Karl Gustav Jung.
What do you think a Freudian or Jungian reading of a text would involve? What angle / perspective would one approach the text from?
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