A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka

Stanley Corngold

ISBN 10: 1571133364 / ISBN 13: 9781571133366

Published by Boydell and Brewer Ltd, US, 2006

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New essays by leading scholars on the most perplexing of modern writers, Franz Kafka.No other 20th-century writer of German-language literature has been as fully accepted into the canon of world literature as Franz Kafka. The unsettlingly, enigmatically surreal world of Kafka's novels and stories continues to fascinate readers and critics of each new generation, who in turn continue to find new readings. One thing has become clear: although all theories attempt to appropriate Kafka, there is no one key to his work. The challenge to criticshas been to present a strong point of view while taking account of previous Kafka research, a challenge that has been met by the contributors to this volume. Contributors: James Rolleston, Clayton Koelb, Walter H. Sokel, Judith Ryan, Russel A. Berman, Ritchie Robertson, Henry Sussman, Stanley Corngold, Bianca Theisen, Rolf J. Goebel, Richard T. Gray, Ruth V. Gross, Sander L. Gilman, John Zilcosky, Mark Harman James Rolleston is Professor Emeritus of German at Duke University.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka
• Publisher: Boydell and Brewer Ltd, US
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1571133364
• ISBN 13: 9781571133366
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 1 gram

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Synopsis

New essays by leading scholars on the most perplexing of modern writers, Franz Kafka.

No other 20th-century writer of German-language literature has been as fully accepted into the canon of world literature as Franz Kafka. The unsettlingly, enigmatically surreal world of Kafka's novels and stories continues to fascinate readers and critics of each new generation, who in turn continue to find new readings. One thing has become clear: although all theories attempt to appropriate Kafka, there is no one key to his work. The challenge to criticshas been to present a strong point of view while taking account of previous Kafka research, a challenge that has been met by the contributors to this volume.

Contributors: James Rolleston, Clayton Koelb, Walter H. Sokel, Judith Ryan, Russel A. Berman, Ritchie Robertson, Henry Sussman, Stanley Corngold, Bianca Theisen, Rolf J. Goebel, Richard T. Gray, Ruth V. Gross, Sander L. Gilman, John Zilcosky, Mark Harman

James Rolleston is Professor Emeritus of German at Duke University.

About the Authors

ROLF J. GOEBEL is Distinguished Professor of German, Emeritus, at the University of Alabama in Huntsville.

Professor of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Texas at Arlington