A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka

List of contents

Introduction: Kafka Begins - James Rolleston
Critical Editions I: The 1994 Paperback Edition - James Rolleston
Critical Editions II: Will the Real Franz Kafka Please Stand Up? -
Beyond Self-Assertion: A Life of Reading Kafka - Walter H. Sokel
Kafka Before Kafka: The Early Stories - Judith Ryan
Tradition and Betrayal in "Das Urteil" - Russell A. Berman
Kafka as Anti-Christian: "Das Urteil," "Die Verwandlung" and the Aphorisms - Ritchie Robertson
Kafka's Aesthetics: A Primer: From the Fragments to the Novels - Henry Sussman
Medial Allusions at the Ouset of Der Proceß; or, res in media - Stanley Corngold
Kafka's Circus Turns: "Auf der Galerie" and "Erstes Leid" - Bianca Theisen
Kafka and Postcolonial Critique: Der Verschollene, - Rolf J. Goebel
Disjunctive Signs: Semiotics, Aesthetics and Failed Mediation in "In der Strafkolonie" - Richard T. Gray
Hunting Kafka Out of Season: Enigmatics in the Short Fictions - Ruth V. Gross
A Dream of Jewishness Denied: Kafka's Tumor and "Ein Landarzt" - Sander L. Gilman
Surveying the Castle: Kafka's Colonial Visions - John Zilcosky
Making Everything "A Little Uncanny": Kafka's Variants to Das Schloß and What They Can Tell Us About His Writing ProcessHis Writing Process - Mark Harman
Kafka Imagines His Readers: The Rhetoric of "Josefine die Sängerin" and "Der Bau" -

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James Rolleston

Product details

• Authors: James Rolleston
• Assisted by: James Rolleston (Editor)
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.2006
• EAN: 9781571133366
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-336-6
• No. of pages: 388
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 229 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 603 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature,; Studies in German Literature L
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies