Franz Kafka : Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading /
"Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading presents essays by noted Kafka critics and by leading narratologists who explore Kafka's original and innovative uses of narrative throughout his career. Collectively, these essays by Stanley Corngold, Anniken Greve, Gerhard Kurz, Jakob Lothe,...
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[2011]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Narration and narratives in Kafka / Jakob Lothe, Beatrice Sandberg, and Ronald Speirs-- Progression, speed, and judgment in "Das urteil" / James Phelan
- The human body and the human being in "Die Verwandlung" / Anniken Greve
- "Lightning no longer flashes" : Kafka's Chinese voice and the thunder of the Great War / Benno Wagner
- The abandoned writing desk : on Kafka's metanarratives, as exemplified by "Der Heizer" / Gerhard Neumann
- Therese's story in "Der Verschollene" / Gerhard Kurz
- The sense of an un-ending : the resistance to narrative closure in Kafka's "Das Schloss" / J. Hillis Miller
- Starting in the middle? complications of narrative beginnings and progression in Kafka / Beatrice Sandberg
- The narrative beginning of Kafka's "In der Strafkolonie" / Jakob Lothe
- Musical indirections in Kafka's "Forschungen eines Hundes" / Stanley Corngold
- The dynamics of narration in Betrachtung, "Das Urteil," and Kafka's reflections on writing / Ronald Speirs.