Franz Kafka's literary career began in the first decade of the twentieth century and produced some of the most fascinating and influential works in all of modern European literature. Now, a hundred years later, the concerns of a new century call for...
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Franz Kafka's literary career began in the first decade of the twentieth century and produced some of the most fascinating and influential works in all of modern European literature. Now, a hundred years later, the concerns of a new century call for a look at the questions and challenges facing Kafka scholarship in the decades ahead. The new essays making up this volume, written by leading international Kafka scholars, pursue answers to these questions and challenges
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Frontcover; 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 Intermedial11: "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 LiteraryLandscape; BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX; Backcover
