Franz Kafka
By: edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.
Contributors: Bloom, Harold.
Edition: New ed.
Series: Bloom's modern critical views
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781604138061
Subjects: Kafka, Franz, -- 1883-1924 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Kafka's narrative: a matter of form / Anthony Thorlby; title: Kafka and modernism / Walter H. Sokel; title: Text that was never a story: symmetry and disaster in "A Country Doctor" / Henry Sussman; title: Impossibility of crows / Stephen D. Dowden; title: Franz Kafka: wrenching scripture / Robert Alter; title: Allotria and Excreta in "In the Penal Colony" / Stanley Corngold; title: Tradition and Betrayal in "Das Urteil" / Russell A. Berman; title: Kafka Imagines His Readers: The Rhetoric of "Josefine die Sängerin" and "Der Bau" / Clayton Koelb; title: Kafka's Antitheatrical Gestures / Martin Puchner; title: Kafka / Patrick Reilly; title: Franz Kafka's Die Verwandlung: Transformation, Metaphor, and the Perils of Assimilation / Simon Ryan