A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka 1st Edition by James Rolleston, Bianca Theisen, Henry Sussman, John Zilcosky 1571136029 9781571136022

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ISBN 10: 1571136029 

ISBN 13: 9781571136022

Author: James Rolleston, Bianca Theisen, Henry Sussman, John Zilcosky

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, who in turn continue to find new readings. One thing has become wholly clear: although all theories attempt to appropriate Kafka, there is no one key to his work. The challenge to critics has been to present a strong point of view while taking account of previous Kafka research, a challenge that has been met by the contributors to this volume. The essays follow an introduction by the editor,and include: Clayton Koelb on the controversial question of Kafka editions; Walter H. Sokel on a life of reading–and writing about–Kafka; Judith Ryan on the early stories; Russell A. Berman on tradition and betrayal in `The Judgment’; Ritchie Robertson on anti-Christian elements in `The Judgment,’ `The Metamorphosis,’ and the aphorisms; Henry Sussman on Kafka’s evolving aesthetics; Stanley Corngold on The Trial; Bianca Theisen on Kafka’s use of circus motifs in the stories `Up in the Gallery’ and `First Sorrow’; Rolf J. Goebel on the connection of Kafka’s The Missing Person, `In the Penal Colony,’ and `The Great Wall of China’ to postcolonial critique; Richard T. Gray on the semiotics and aesthetics of `In the Penal Colony’; Ruth V. Gross on the `enigmatics’ of the short fiction; Sander L. Gilman on Kafka’s Jewishness and the story `The Country Doctor’; John Zilcosky on the colonial visionsin The Castle; Mark Harman on the variants to The Castle and what they tell us about Kafka’s writing process; and Clayton Koelb on Kafka’s rhetoric in the late stories `Josephine the Singer’ and `The Burrow.’

Table of contents:

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 chine

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 W

Kafka Imagines His Readers: The Rhetoric of “Josefine die Sängerin” and “Der Bau”

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