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A companion to the works of Franz Kafka /

No other writer of German-language literature in the 20th century has been as fully accepted into the canon of world literature as Franz Kafka. The unsettlingly, enigmatically surreal world depicted in Kafka's novels and stories continues to fascinate readers and critics of each new generation,...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Rolleston, James, 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, N.Y. : Camden House, 2002.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Kafka begins ; Critical editions I: the 1994 paperback edition / James Rolleston
  • Critical editions II: will the real Franz Kafka please stand up? / Clayton Koelb
  • 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 / Richie Robertson
  • Kafka's aesthetics: a primer: from the fragments to the novels / Henry Sussman
  • Medial allusions at the outset 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 Vershollene, "In der Strafkolonie," "Beim Bau der chinesischen Mauer" / 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
  • 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 deletions in the manuscript of Das Schloss and what they can tell us about his writing process / Mark Harman
  • Kafka imagines his readers: the rhetoric of "Josefine die Sängerin" and "Der Bau" / Clayton Koelb.