Franz Kafka
Subtitle: narration, rhetoric, and reading
By: edited by Jakob Lothe, Beatrice Sandberg, and Ronald Speirs
Series: Theory and interpretation of narrative; Theory and interpretation of narrative series
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780814211502; 9780814251775
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: narration and narratives in Kafka --; title: Progression, speed, and judgment in Kafka's "Das urteil"  -- James Phelan; title: The human body and the human being in "Die verwandlung"  -- Anniken Greve; title: "Lightning no longer flashes": Kafka's Chinese voice and the thunder of the great war  -- Benno Wagner; title: The abandoned writing desk: on Kafka's metanarratives, as exemplified by "Der heizer"  -- Gerhard Neumann; title: Therese's story in "Der verschollene"  -- Gerhard Kurz; title: The sense of an un-ending: the resistance to narrative closure in Kafka's "Das schloss"  -- J. Hillis Miller; title: Starting in the middle? complications of narrative beginnings and progression in Kafka  -- Beatrice Sandberg; title: The narrative beginning of Kafka's "In der strafkolonie"  -- Jakob Lothe; title: Musical indirections in Kafka's "Forschungen eines hundes"  -- Stanley Corngold; title: The dynamics of narration in betrachtung: "Das urteil," and Kafka's reflections on writing -- Ronald Speirs.