A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture)

CONTENTS
......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 10
KAFKA'S WORKS BY YEAR OF FIRST APPEARANCE, WITH DATE OF FIRST ENGLISH TRANSLATION
......Page 12
ABBREVIATIONS OF KAFKA'S WORKS......Page 16
INTRODUCTION: Kafka Begins
......Page 18
Critical Editions I: The 1994 Paperback Edition......Page 38
Critical Editions II: Will the Real Franz Kafka Please Stand Up?......Page 44
Beyond Self-Assertion: A Life of Reading Kafka......Page 50
Kafka before Kafka: The Early Stories......Page 78
Tradition and Betrayal in “Das Urteil”......Page 102
Kafka as Anti-Christian: “Das Urteil,” 
“Die Verwandlung,” and the Aphorisms......Page 118
Kafka’s Aesthetics: A Primer: From the Fragments to the Novels......Page 140
Medial Allusions at the Outset 
of Der Proceß; or, res in media......Page 166
Kafka’s Circus Turns: “Auf der Galerie” and “Erstes Leid”......Page 188
Kafka and Postcolonial Critique: Der Verschollene, “In der Strafkolonie,” 
“Beim Bau der chinesischen Mauer”......Page 204
Disjunctive Signs: Semiotics, Aesthetics, and Failed 
Mediation in “In der Strafkolonie”......Page 230
Hunting Kafka Out of Season: Enigmatics in the Short Fictions......Page 264
A Dream of Jewishness Denied: Kafka’s Tumor and “Ein Landarzt”......Page 280
Surveying The Castle: Kafka’s Colonial Visions......Page 298
Making Everything “a little uncanny”: Kafka’s Deletions in the Manuscript of Das Schloß and What They Can Tell Us 
About His Writing Process......Page 342
Kafka Imagines His Readers: The Rhetoric of “Josefine die Sängerin” 
and “Der Bau”......Page 364
NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
......Page 378
INDEX
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