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Topic: The Castle (disambiguation)


  
  The Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
One interpretation of K's journey to the castle is it representative of Kafka's own quest for God in his life, and how the quest is hindered by irrational beliefs and boundaries (the quirks of the village people in respect to the castle and the strictly enforced bureacracy of the castle officials).
Additionally, the literary style of The Castle is crafted in such a way as to mimic the Castle that K. is attempting to contact: the novel has every appearance of holding together and building a text, but as it is examined, the texts deconstructs itself and crumbles like the Castle in the story.
K is the protagonist of the story, recognized as a land surveyor, employed as a janitor, and a stranger to the townspeople.
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 Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A castle (from the Latin castellum, diminutive of castra, a military camp, in turn the plural of castrum or watchpost), is a fort, a camp and the logical development of a fortified enclosure.
Castle walls, together with lodgings (keep) suitable for a Lord, as well as lower grade housing within the walls to accommodate some of the key population of the local area, served this purpose.
Castles were also developed to defend key part of the countryside such as a mountain pass or river estuary, and often made use of the natural geography to support the defensive walls through exploitation of cliffs, rivers, hills, and the like.
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 Bishop Castle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Castle (from the Latin castellum, diminutive of castra, amilitary camp, in turn the plural of castrum or watchpost), is a fort, a camp and the logical development of a fortified enclosure.
A castle is a small self-contained fortress, usually of the middle ages, though the term is sometimes used of prehistoric earthworks (e.g.
Castles were also developed to defend key part of the countryside such as a mountain pass or river estuary...
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 Nottingham   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In the 11th century a castle was constructed on a sandstone outcrop by the River Trent and a town grew around the castle.
The original castle was demolished by the victorious Parliamentarians in 1651.
The castle mansion was built for the Duke of Newcastle on this site, but was gutted in 1831 during riots over the Reform Bill, the then occupant being a known opponent of extending the franchise.
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 Inverness - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The castle was built on the site of a previous building in 1835 and is now a Sheriff Court; an older wooden castle was located further east in the 11th century, and may have been the basis for the castle in Shakespeare's Macbeth.
The castle is said to have been built by Malcolm Canmore, after he had razed to the ground the castle in which Macbeth according to tradition murdered Duncan, and which stood on a hill around 1 km to the north-east.
In 1562, during the progress undertaken to suppress Huntly's insurrection, Queen Mary was denied admittance into the castle by the governor, who belonged to the earl's faction, and whom she afterwards therefore caused to be hanged.
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 Middle East Open Encyclopedia: Kerak   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Construction of the Crusader castle began in the 1140s, under Paganus, the butler of King Fulk.
Paganus was also Lord of Oultrejordain (Transjordan), and Kerak became the centre of his power, replacing the weaker castle of Montreal to the south.
In 1184 Saladin besieged the castle in response to Raynald's attacks.
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 Vyborg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The area used to be inhabited by the Karelians, a Finnic tribe which gradually came under the domination of Novgorod and Sweden.
The first castle of Viborg was founded during the third Swedish crusade in 1293 by the marshal Torkel Knutsson.
The castle was fought over for centuries between Sweden and the Republic of Novgorod.
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 Conwy Castle - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Conwy Castle in an early 20th century illustration from Cassell's History of England.
Conwy Castle (sometimes spelled Conway Castle) was built between 1283 and 1289 in Conwy as part of King Edward I's second campaign in north Wales.
The castle is divided into two wards, with the outer ward and inner ward surrounded by four towers each, with turrets.
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 The Castle (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Castle (Das Schloß) is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1922.
The Castle for another novel by the same name.
The Castle is also the nickname of Smithsonian Institution Building in Washington, D.C. This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 Trim Spa Ef -- Recommendations and Resources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Other building within the Castle Ground, include a very unusual circular Barbican gate in the Curtain Walls, serving as the 'Dublin' gate, a square gate house on the town side, called the Trim Gate, the outline of a mid 13th Century Great Hall, and a Mint.
The Castle was used as a centre of Norman administration for the Liberty of Meath, one of the newly created administrative areas of Ireland, created by Henry II of England and granted to Hugh de Lacy.
The Castle site was chosen, as it is on raised ground, overlooking a fording point over the River Boyne, and although about 25 miles from the Irish Sea was accessibile in Medieval times by boat up the River Boyne.
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 Castle (disambiguation) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A castle is a fort and a camp.
Operation Castle, a series of nuclear tests conducted in 1954
This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
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 Windsor Apartments
It is the location of Windsor Castle, one of the official residences of the British royal family.
The castle was originally established by King William I of England but has been substantially altered and added to over the centuries.
The castle is located in the Berkshire town of Windsor, in the Thames Valley to the west of London.
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 Rxpress - Prague - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Those four cities were Hradčany (the Castle District, west and north of the Castle), Lesser Quarter (Malá Strana, south of the Castle), Old Town (Staré Město, on the east bank opposite the Castle) and New Town (Nové Město, further south and east).
The city underwent further expansion with the annexation of Josefov in 1850 and Vyšehrad in 1883, and at the beginning of 1922, another 37 municipalities were incorporated, raising the city's population to 676,000.
Prague Castle (the largest castle in the world) with its St.
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 Articles - Edinburgh   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
To the south the view is dominated by Edinburgh Castle, perched atop an extinct volcanic crag, and the long sweep of the Old Town trailing after it along the ridge.
One end is closed by the castle and the main artery The High Street (or the Royal Mile) leads away from it; minor streets (called closes or wynds) bud off the main spine in a herringbone pattern.
The topography for the city is known as "crag and tail" and was created during the ice age when receding glaciers scored across the land pushing soft soil aside but being split by harder crags of volcaninc rock.
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 The Castle - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Castle (titled Das Schloß in its original German version) is a novel written by Franz Kafka in 1922.Dark and at times surreal, Kafka's novel The Castle is about alienation, the rule of bureaucracy and the hopelessness of man's attempts to stand against the system.
The biggest roadblock is the irrational and somewhat quirky fears of the village people that prevent him and them from ever getting in touch with castle officials,and give castle officials a surperior and mysterious air to them.
The Castle, Story, Analysis, Important Characters, Influences, 1922 books, Dystopian novels and Unfinished books.
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 Rxpress - Aquino - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
This article is about the town in Italy; for other uses, see Aquino (disambiguation).
Aquino is a small town episcopal see in the south-central Italian province of Frosinone, in the Lazio region, 56 miles northwest by rail from the town of Caserta, and 7-½ miles northwest of Cassino.
St Thomas Aquinas was born in the castle of Roccasecca, 5 miles North.
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 Bristol - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The city borders on the unitary districts of Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
The town of Brycgstow (Old English, "the place at the bridge") was in existence by the beginning of the 11th century, and under Norman rule acquired one of the strongest castles in southern England.
The original central area, near the bridge and castle, is now a park, featuring two bombed out churches and some tiny fragments of the castle.
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 Dungeon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
A dungeon (derived from the Old French donjon, from the Latin dominus, "lord"), in its original medieval usage, was the keep, the main tower of a castle which formed the final defensive position the garrison could retreat to when outer fortifications were overcome.
The dungeon was a safe, if not comfortable, place to keep prisoners and was used mainly for this purpose, once more luxurious housing for the lord of the castle was constructured.
Its meaning has evolved to also mean an underground prison or vault, typically built underneath a castle.
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 Blanche L. Lincoln Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In 1068, two years after the Norman Conquest, William I of EnglandWilliam I ordered a castle to be built on the site of the former Roman settlement.
The Lincoln campus took priority over the Hull Campus (which is now closing down), and as such the name changed in 2002 to the University of Lincoln, taking over the Art College and Riseholme College.
The city is a tourismtourist centre, but is never overwhelmed by tourists; those who come do so to visit the numerous historic buildings, including of course, the Cathedral and the Castle.
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 Oulu   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Its population growth rate is almost comparable with that of the Helsinki Metropolitan Area.
Founded on August 8 1605 by King Karl IX of Sweden opposite the castle built on the island of Linnansaari.
This took place after favourable peace settlements with the Russians, which removed the threat of them attacking the region via the main east-west waterway, the river Oulu (the surrounding areas were populated much earlier).
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 Encyclopedia: Clan MacLeod
Robert I, King of Scots, usually known as Robert the Bruce (July 11, 1274 – June 7, 1329, reigned 1306 – 1329), was, according to a modern biographer (Geoffrey Barrow), a great hero who lived in a minor country.
The clan holds the legendary Fairy Flag at Dunvegan Castle.
Dunvegan Castle, looking towards MacLeods Tables Dunvegan Castle is a castle on the Isle of Skye, off the west coast of Scotland.
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 Bakhtin, Genre Theory and Theoretical Comparative Literature: Chron
This does not only contribute to the disambiguation of references and of figurative expressions, but also to the readers' ability to infer what they do not witness directly, or what is not explicitly mentioned in a text" (Semino 172).
The image of the haunted maid in a Gothic castle is another mnemonic scene; it corresponds with stereotyped information about a setting and a series of actions and with a stereotyped goal (the reunion of the lovers).
The chronotopes of the road, the castle, the salon, the provincial town or the threshold -- the examples Bakhtin uses in the last draft of his essay (1973) -- refer to such complex situations.
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 Encyclopedia: Malta (disambiguation)
A typical mug of lager beer, showing the golden colour of the beer and the foamy head floating on top.
This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title.
If an article link referred you here, you might want to go back and fix it to point directly to the intended page.
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 Villages in Northamptonshire   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
Fotheringhay (or Fotheringay) Castle in Northamptonshire, England was razed in 1627, and there is nothing left of it to be seen today other than the motte on which it was built that provides excellent views of the River Welland.
Fotheringhay is also where Mary I of Scotland was tried and Decapitation in 1587, and her body lay there for some months before its final burial elsewhere.
It is often said that James I of England destroyed the castle because his mother was killed there, but that is not true - it fell into such disrepair that it had to be pulled down, and the stones were all taken to be used in other buildings.
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 AUTHOR:   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
In contrast to the birth imagery that dominates the beginning of the scene, Carter's narrator comes to feel "as if [she] were in the viscera of the castle" (28).
The puppetmaster, open-mouthed, wide-eyed, impotent at the last, saw his dolls break free of their strings, abandon the rituals he had ordained for them since time began and start to live for themselves; the king, aghast, witnesses the revolt of his pawns.
Although Carter still resorts to a climactic penetration scene in which saviours break down the doors of the castle, her revolutionary resolution to the problem of genre turns the conventions upside down.
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 Inverness   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
The Inverness Cape, a garment worn by pipers in the rain, is actually made by a man in Glasgow.
River Ness and Inverness Castle Inverness was one of the chief strongholds of the Picts, and in 565 was visited by Saint Columba with the intention of converting the Pictish king Brude, who is supposed to have resided in the vitrified fort on Craig Phadrig (168 m), 2.4 km west of the city.
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 Castle Toronto
1) " Castle" -- In the context of Castle Toronto
Castles were also developed to defend key part of the countryside such as a mountain pass or river estuary http:/.
Toronto is part ofthe Golden Horseshoe region of Ontario, a densely populated regionof around 6.7 million people.
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 Russian Fairy Tales,
A fly built a castle, a tall and mighty castle.
There came to the castle the Crawling Louse.
I, I, the Languishing Fly, and I, the Crawling Louse, and I, the Leaping Flea.
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