Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations for Kafka Citations
- Introduction
- 1 Running Texts, Stunning Drafts
- 2 “Torturing the Gordian Knot”: Kafka and Metaphor
- 3 Nietzsche and Kafka: The Dionysian Connection
- 4 What Kafka Learned from Flaubert: “Absent-Minded Window-Gazing” and “The Judgment”
- 5 Kafka’s Racial Melancholy
- 6 Strange Loops and the Absent Center in The Castle
- 7 Proxies in Kafka: Koncipist FK and Prokurist Josef K.
- 8 Kafka, Goffman, and the Total Institution
- 9 Kafka in Virilio’s Teletopical City
- 10 Kafka’s Visual Method: The Gaze, the Cinematic, and the Intermedial
- 11 “Samsa war Reisender”: Trains, Trauma, and the Unreadable Body
- 12 The Comfort of Strangeness: Correlating the Kafkaesque and the Kafkan in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled
- 13 Kafka’s Journey into the Future: Crossing Borders into Israeli/Palestinian Worlds
- 14 Kafka and Italy: A New Perspective on the Italian Literary Landscape
- Bibliography
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2023
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Abbreviations for Kafka Citations
- Introduction
- 1 Running Texts, Stunning Drafts
- 2 “Torturing the Gordian Knot”: Kafka and Metaphor
- 3 Nietzsche and Kafka: The Dionysian Connection
- 4 What Kafka Learned from Flaubert: “Absent-Minded Window-Gazing” and “The Judgment”
- 5 Kafka’s Racial Melancholy
- 6 Strange Loops and the Absent Center in The Castle
- 7 Proxies in Kafka: Koncipist FK and Prokurist Josef K.
- 8 Kafka, Goffman, and the Total Institution
- 9 Kafka in Virilio’s Teletopical City
- 10 Kafka’s Visual Method: The Gaze, the Cinematic, and the Intermedial
- 11 “Samsa war Reisender”: Trains, Trauma, and the Unreadable Body
- 12 The Comfort of Strangeness: Correlating the Kafkaesque and the Kafkan in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled
- 13 Kafka’s Journey into the Future: Crossing Borders into Israeli/Palestinian Worlds
- 14 Kafka and Italy: A New Perspective on the Italian Literary Landscape
- Bibliography
- Notes on the Contributors
- Index
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- Kafka for the Twenty-First Century , pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2011