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A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka »

Authors: James Rolleston
ISBN-13: 9781571133366, ISBN-10: 1571133364
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Date Published: May 2006
Edition: (Non-applicable)

New essays by leading scholars on the most perplexing of modern writers, Franz Kafka.

	Preface
	Kafka's Works by Year of First Appearance, With Date of First English Translation
	Abbreviations of Kafka's Works
	Introduction: Kafka Begins	1
	Critical Editions I: The 1994 Paperback Edition	21
	Critical Editions II: Will the Real Franz Kafka Please Stand Up?	27
	Beyond Self-Assertion: A Life of Reading Kafka	33
	Kafka before Kafka: The Early Stories	61
	Tradition and Betrayal in "Das Urteil"	85
	Kafka as Anti-Christian: "Das Urteil," "Die Verwandlung," and the Aphorisms	101
	Kafka's Aesthetics: A Primer: From the Fragments to the Novels	123
	Medial Allusions at the Outset of Der Process; or res in media	149
	Kafka's Circus Turns: "Auf der Galerie" and "Erstes Leid"	171
	Kafka and Postcolonial Critique: Der Verschollene, "In der Strafkolonie," "Beim Bau der chinesischen Mauer"	187
	Disjunctive Signs: Semiotics, Aesthetics, and Failed Mediation in "In der Strafkolonie"	213
	Hunting Kafka Out of Season: Enigmatics in the Short Fictions	247
	A Dream of Jewishness Denied: Kafka's Tumor and "Ein Landarzt"	263
	Surveying The Castle: Kafka's Colonial Visions	281
	Making Everything "a little uncanny": Kafka's Deletions in the Manuscript of Das Schloss and What They Can Tell Us About His Writing Process	325
	Kafka Imagines His Readers: The Rhetoric of "Josefine die Sangerin" and "Der Bau"	347
	Notes on the Contributors	361
	Index	365