Introduction
Running Texts, Stunning Drafts
"Torturing the Gordian Knot": Kafka and Metaphor Revisited
Nietzsche and Kafka: The Dionysian Connection
What Kafka Learned from Flaubert: Absent-Minded Window-Gazing and
The Judgment
Kafka's Racial Melancholy: "A Report to an Academy"
Strange Loops and Absent Center in The Castle
Proxies in Kafka: Koncipist FK and Prokurist Joseph K
Kafka, Goffman, and the Total Institution
Kafka in Virilio's Teletopical City
Kafka's Visual Method: The Gaze, the Cinematic, and Intermedial
"Samsa war Reisender": Trains, Trauma, and the Unreadable Body
The Comfort of Strangeness: Correlating the Kafkaesque and the
Kafkan in Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled
Kafka's Journey into the Future: Crossing Borders into
Israeli/Palestinian Worlds
Kafka and Italy: A New Perspective on the Italian Literary
Landscape
Works Cited-Full Bibliography
Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Arlington
The essays in this volume are all worth reading, . . . well written
and cogently argued. . . . Often they are provocative, sometimes
opening up new avenues into parts of Kafka's oeuvre . . .
sometimes, just as productively, re-exploring old ones. . . .
[T]aken together the essays do in fact set out a fairly coherent
agenda for Kafka Studies over the coming years and even
decades.
*MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW*
[P]roves that there is no end in sight to Kafka scholarship. . . .
With its fine scholarship, comprehensive bibliography, [and]
detailed index, [this collection] excels in every respect: the book
is user friendly and at the same time an important addition to
Kafka research.
*JOURNAL OF AUSTRIAN STUDIES*
The best moments in Kafka for the Twenty-First Century are those
which return us to the detail of Kafka's own writing, often of
fragmentary and little-regarded bits and pieces, which immediately
reminds us why we read Kafka in the first place.
*TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT*
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