Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Kafka’s Works by Year of First Appearance, With Date of First English Translation
- Abbreviations of Kafka’s Works
- Introduction: Kafka Begins
- Critical Editions I: The 1994 Paperback Edition
- Critical Editions II: Will the Real Franz Kafka Please Stand Up?
- Beyond Self-Assertion: A Life of Reading Kafka
- Kafka before Kafka: The Early Stories
- Tradition and Betrayal in “Das Urteil”
- Kafka as Anti-Christian: “Das Urteil,” “Die Verwandlung,” and the Aphorisms
- Kafka’s Aesthetics: A Primer: From the Fragments to the Novels
- Medial Allusions at the Outset of Der Proceß; or, res in media
- Kafka’s Circus Turns: “Auf der Galerie” and “Erstes Leid”
- Kafka and Postcolonial Critique: Der Verschollene, “In der Strafkolonie,” “Beim Bau der chinesischen Mauer”
- Disjunctive Signs: Semiotics, Aesthetics, and Failed Mediation in “In der Strafkolonie”
- Hunting Kafka Out of Season: Enigmatics in the Short Fictions
- A Dream of Jewishness Denied: Kafka’s Tumor and “Ein Landarzt”
- Surveying The Castle: Kafka’s Colonial Visions
- Making Everything “a little uncanny”: Kafka’s Deletions in the Manuscript of Das Schloß and What They Can Tell Us About His Writing Process
- Kafka Imagines His Readers: The Rhetoric of “Josefine die Sängerin” and “Der Bau”
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Kafka’s Works by Year of First Appearance, With Date of First English Translation
- Abbreviations of Kafka’s Works
- Introduction: Kafka Begins
- Critical Editions I: The 1994 Paperback Edition
- Critical Editions II: Will the Real Franz Kafka Please Stand Up?
- Beyond Self-Assertion: A Life of Reading Kafka
- Kafka before Kafka: The Early Stories
- Tradition and Betrayal in “Das Urteil”
- Kafka as Anti-Christian: “Das Urteil,” “Die Verwandlung,” and the Aphorisms
- Kafka’s Aesthetics: A Primer: From the Fragments to the Novels
- Medial Allusions at the Outset of Der Proceß; or, res in media
- Kafka’s Circus Turns: “Auf der Galerie” and “Erstes Leid”
- Kafka and Postcolonial Critique: Der Verschollene, “In der Strafkolonie,” “Beim Bau der chinesischen Mauer”
- Disjunctive Signs: Semiotics, Aesthetics, and Failed Mediation in “In der Strafkolonie”
- Hunting Kafka Out of Season: Enigmatics in the Short Fictions
- A Dream of Jewishness Denied: Kafka’s Tumor and “Ein Landarzt”
- Surveying The Castle: Kafka’s Colonial Visions
- Making Everything “a little uncanny”: Kafka’s Deletions in the Manuscript of Das Schloß and What They Can Tell Us About His Writing Process
- Kafka Imagines His Readers: The Rhetoric of “Josefine die Sängerin” and “Der Bau”
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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- A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka , pp. i - ivPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2002