Franz Kafka in Context

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Dunker, A., ‘Kolonialismus in der Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts: Am Beispiel von Hugo von Hofmannsthal, Gottfried Benn, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Glauser, Hermann Hesse, Arno Schmidt und Hubert Fichte’ in Dürbeck, G. and Dunker, A. (eds.), Postkoloniale Germanistik: Bestandsaufnahme, theoretische Perspektiven, Lektüren (Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2014), pp. 271–327 (pp. 289–98 on Kafka)

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20 Law

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21 Philosophy

Born, J., Kafkas Bibliothek: Ein beschreibendes Verzeichnis. (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1990)

Bridgwater, P., Kafka and Nietzsche (Bonn: Bouvier, 1974)

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Haecker, Th., ‘F. Blei und Kierkegaard’, Der Brenner, 4, no. 10 (1914), 457–65

Heidler, I., Der Verleger Eugen Diederichs und seine Welt (1896–1930) (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1998)

Irina, N., ‘Franz Kafka: Reading Kierkegaard’ in Stewart, J. (ed.), Kierkegaard's Influence on Literature, Criticism and Art. Volume I: The Germanophone World (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), pp. 115–39

Kierkegaard, S., Buch des Richters: Seine Tagebücher 1833–1855, ed. Gottsched, H. (Leipzig: Eugen Diederichs, 1905)

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Morgan, B., ‘Kierkegaard in the German-Speaking World During the Early 20th-Century’ in Engel, M. and Robertson, R. (eds.), Kafka und die Religion in der Moderne/Kafka, Religion, and Modernity (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014), pp. 71–92

Oschmann, D., ‘Philosophie’ in Engel, M. and Auerochs, B. (eds.), Kafka-Handbuch (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2010), pp. 59–64

22 Religion

Agamben, G., Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford University Press, 1998)

Alter, R., Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991)

Benjamin, W., ‘Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death’ in Jennings, M. W., Eiland, H. and Smith, G. (eds.), Livingstone, R. (trans.), Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1927–1934 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), vol. ii, pp. 794–818

Brod, M. and Schopeps, H. J., Im Streit um Kafka und das Judentum (Königstein/Ts: Jüdischer Verlag bei Athenäum, 1985)

Engel, M. and Robertson, R. (eds.), Kafka und die Religion in der Moderne/Kafka, Religion, and Modernity (Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2014)

Neumann, G., ‘Umkehrung und Ablenkung: Franz Kafkas “gleitendes Paradox”’, Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, 42 (1968), 702–44; reprinted in Politzer, H. (ed.), Franz Kafka (Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 1973), pp. 459–515

23 Judaism and Zionism

Alter, R., Necessary Angels: Tradition and Modernity in Kafka, Benjamin, and Scholem (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991)

Bruce, I., Kafka and Cultural Zionism: Dates in Palestine (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2007)

Gelber, M. H. (ed.), Kafka, Zionism, and Beyond (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 2004)

Liska, V., When Kafka Says We: Uncommon Communities in German-Jewish Literature (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2009)

Miron, D., From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward a New Jewish Literary Thinking (Stanford University Press, 2010)

24 Psychology and Psychoanalysis

Alt, P.-A., Franz Kafka: Der ewige Sohn (Munich: Beck, 2005)

Anz, T., ‘Psychoanalyse’ in Engel, M. and Auerochs, B. (eds.), Kafka-Handbuch (Stuttgart: Metzler, 2010), pp. 65–72

Bell, M., The German Tradition of Psychology in Literature and Thought, 1700–1840 (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

Gundlach, H. U. K., ‘Germany’ in Baker, D. D. (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the History of Psychology: Global Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2012), pp. 255–88

Ryan, J., The Vanishing Subject: Early Psychology and Literary Modernism (University of Chicago Press, 1991)

Smith, B., ‘Brentano and Kafka’, Axiomathes, 8 (1997), 83–104

25 Gender and Sexuality

Boa, E., Kafka: Gender, Class, and Race in the Letters and Fictions (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996)

Friedländer, S., Franz Kafka: The Poet of Shame and Guilt (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2013)

Gilman, S. L., Franz Kafka: The Jewish Patient (New York: Routledge, 1995)

Mosse, G. L., Nationalism and Sexuality: Respectability and Abnormal Sexuality in Modern Europe (New York: Fertig, 1985)

Stach, R., ‘Kafka's Egoless Woman: Otto Weininger's “Sex and Character”’ in Anderson, M. M. (ed.), Reading Kafka: Prague, Politics and the Fin de Siècle (New York: Schocken Books, 1989), pp. 149–69

Stach, R., Kafka: The Early Years, trans. Frisch, S. (Princeton University Press, 2017)

26 The City

Alter, R., Imagined Cities and the Language of the Novel (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 2005)

Frisby, D., Fragments of Modernity: Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer and Benjamin (London: Routledge, 2013)

Goebel, R. J., ‘The Exploration of the Modern City in The Trial’ in Preece, J. (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Franz Kafka (Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 42–60

Spector, S., Prague Territories: National Conflict and Cultural Innovation in Franz Kafka's Fin de Siècle (Berkeley, CA: California University Press, 2000)

Tambing, J., Lost in the American City: Dickens, James and Kafka (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2001)

27 Childhood, Pedagogy and Education

Key, E., The Century of the Child, trans. Maro, F. (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1909)

Robertson, R., ‘Children and Childhood in Kafka's Work’, in Duttlinger, C. (ed.), Kafkas ‘Betrachtung’: Neue Lektüren (Freiburg: Rombach, 2014), pp. 179–99

Rutschky, K. (ed.), Schwarze Pädagogik: Quellen zur Naturgeschichte der bürgerlichen Erziehung (Berlin: Ullstein, 1997)

Schatzman, M., Soul Murder: Persecution in the Family (London: Allen Lane, 1973)

Stach, R., Kafka: The Early Years, trans. Frisch, S. (Princeton University Press, 2017)

28 Ethnography and Anthropology

Gess, N., Primitives Denken: Kinder und Wahnsinnige in der literarischen Moderne (Müller, Musil, Benn, Benjamin) (Munich: Fink, 2013)

Gess, N. (ed.), Literarischer Primitivismus (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2012)

Goebel, R. J., Constructing China: Kafka's Orientalist Discourse (Columbia, SC: Camden Hause, 1997)

Kohn, M., ‘Kafka's Critique of Colonialism’, Theory & Event, 8, no. 3 (2005)

Pan, D., Primitive Renaissance: Rethinking German Expressionism (Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2001)

Zilcoskcy, J., Kafka's Travels: Exoticism, Colonialism, and the Traffic of Writing (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)

Zink, J., ‘Rotpeter als Bororo: Drei Erzählungen Franz Kafkas vor dem Hintergrund eines “Literarischen Primitivismus” um 1900’ (PhD dissertation, University of Würzburg, 2005)

29 Early Critical Reception

Beicken, P., Franz Kafka: Eine kritische Einführung in die Forschung (Frankfurt am Main: Atheneion, 1974)

Born, J. (ed.), Franz Kafka: Kritik und Rezeption zu seinen Lebzeiten, 1912–1924 (Frankfurt am Main: Fischer, 1979)

Ermath, M. (ed.), Kurt Wolff: A Portrait in Essays and Letters, trans. Schneider, D. (University of Chicago Press, 1991)

Fromm, W., ‘Kafka-Rezeption’ in von Jagow, B. and Jahraus, O. (eds.), Kafka Handbuch (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008), pp. 250–72

Karl, F. R., ‘Early Years of Achievement in an Age of Hostility’ in Franz Kafka: Representative Man (New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1991), pp. 234–308

Rubin, A. A., ‘Kafka's German-Jewish Reception as Mirror of Modernity’ (PhD dissertation, City University of New York, 2014), CUNY Academic Works. http://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/376/

30 Critical Theory

Adorno, T. W., ‘Notes on Kafka’ in Adorno, T. W., Prisms, trans. Weber, S. and Weber, S. (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1981), pp. 243–71

Benjamin, W., ‘Franz Kafka: “Beim Bau der chinesischen Mauer”’ in Jennings, M. W., Eiland, H. and Smith, G. (eds.), R. Livingstone (trans.),Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings 1927–1934 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), vol. ii, pp. 494–500

Benjamin, W., ‘Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death’ in Jennings, M. W., Eiland, H and Smith, G. (eds.), R. Livingstone (trans.), Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings, 1927–1934 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999), vol. ii, pp. 794–818

Corngold, S., ‘Adorno's “Notes on Kafka”: A Critical Reconstruction’ in Corngold, S., Lambent Traces: Franz Kafka (Princeton University Press, 2004), pp. 158–75

Frisby, D., Fragments of Modernity: Theories of Modernity in the Work of Simmel, Kracauer, and Benjamin (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986)

Hamacher, W., ‘The Gesture in the Name: On Benjamin and Kafka’ in Hamacher, W., Premises: Essays on Philosophy and Literature from Kant to Celan, trans. Fenves, P. (Stanford University Press, 1996), pp. 294–336

Kracauer, S., ‘Franz Kafka’ in Kracauer, S., The Mass Ornament: Weimar Essays, trans. Levin, T. Y. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), pp. 267–78

31 Deconstruction

Bernheimer, C., Flaubert and Kafka: Studies in Psychopoetic Structure (New Haven, CT and London: Yale University Press, 1982)

Corngold, S., ‘Ritardando in Das Schloß (The Castle)’ in Wilke, S. (ed.), From Kafka to Sebald: Modernism and Narrative Form (London: Continuum, 2012), pp. 11–26

Culler, J., On Deconstruction: Theory and Criticism after Structuralism (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1982)

Derrida, J., ‘Before the Law’ in Attridge, D. (ed.), Jacques Derrida: Acts of Literature (New York: Routledge, 1992), pp. 181–220

Sussman, H., Franz Kafka: Geometrician of Metaphor (Madison, WI: Coda Press, 1979)

32 Reading Kafka

Greve, A., ‘The Human Body and the Human Being in “Die Verwandlung”’ in Lothe, J., Sandberg, B. and Speirs, R. (eds.), Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2011), pp. 40–57

Phelan, J., ‘Progression, Speed, and Judgment in “Das Urteil”’ in Lothe, J., Sandberg, B. and Speirs, R. (eds.), Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2011), pp. 22–39

Proulx, T. and Heine, S. J., ‘Connections from Kafka: Exposure to Meaning Threats Improves Implicit Learning of Artificial Grammar’, Psychological Science, 20 (2009), 1125–31

Troscianko, E. T., ‘First-Person and Second-Generation Perspectives on Starvation in Kafka's “Ein Hungerkünstler”’, Style, 48 (2013), 331–48

Troscianko, E. T., ‘Reading Kafka Enactively’, Paragraph, 37 (2014), 37–51

33 Editions

Corngold, S., and Gross, R. V. (eds.), Kafka for the Twenty-First Century (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2011)

Gray, R. T., et al. A Franz Kafka Encyclopedia (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2005)

Koelb, C., Kafka: A Guide for the Perplexed (London: Continuum, 2010)

Robertson, R., Kafka: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2004)

Rolleston, J. (ed.), A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2002)

Stach, R., Kafka: The Decisive Years, trans. Frisch, S. (Princeton University Press, 2013)

34 Translation

Coetzee, J. M., ‘Translating Kafka’, in Coetzee, J. M., Stranger Shores: Literary Essays 1986–1999 (New York and London: Viking, 2001), pp. 74–87

Damrosch, D., ‘Kafka Comes Home’, in Damrosch, D., What is World Literature? (Princeton University Press, 2003), pp. 187–208

Durrani, O., ‘Editions, Translations, Adaptations’ in Preece, J. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Kafka (Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 206–25

Gray, R., ‘But Kafka Wrote in German’ in Flores, A. (ed.), The Kafka Debate (New York: Gordian Press, 1977), pp. 242–52

Harman, M., ‘Digging the Pit of Babel: Retranslating Franz Kafka's Castle’, New Literary History, 27 (1996), 291–311

Kundera, M., ‘A Sentence’ in Kundera, M., Testaments Betrayed: An Essay in Nine Parts, trans. Asher, L. (New York: Harper Collins, 1995), pp. 101–20

Woods, M., Kafka Translated: How Translators have Shaped our Reading of Kafka (London: Bloomsbury, 2014)

35 Film Adaptations

Jeffrey, A., ‘Soderbergh's Kafka: In Retrospect’, Post Script, 31, no. 1 (2011), 26–39

Brady, M. and Hughes, H., ‘Kafka Adapted to Film’ in Preece, J. (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Kafka (Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 226–41

Holmes, D., ‘Literature on the Small Screen: Michael Haneke's Television Adaptations of Josef Roth's Die Rebellion and Kafka's Das Schloß’ in Preece, J., Finlay, F. and Owen, R. J. (eds.), New German Literature: Life-Writing and Dialogue with the Arts (Bern: Peter Lang, 2007), pp. 107–22

Pohland, V., ‘Trains of Traffic: Kafka's Novels into Film’, Journal of the Kafka Society of America, 24, no. 1–2 (2000), 54–74

Vatulescu, C., ‘The Medium on Trial: Orson Welles Takes on Kafka and Cinema’, Literature Film Quarterly, 41, no. 1 (2013), 52–66

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Further Reading

1 Family

2 Friendship

3 Women

4 Work

5 Health and Illness

6 Writing

7 Style

8 Literary Modernism

9 Kafka's Reading

10 Gesture

11 Performance and Recitation

12 Film

13 Photography

14 Music

15 Architecture

16 Prague: History and Culture

17 Czech Language and Literature

18 The First World War

19 Travel, Colonialism and Exoticism

20 Law

21 Philosophy

22 Religion

23 Judaism and Zionism

24 Psychology and Psychoanalysis

25 Gender and Sexuality

26 The City

27 Childhood, Pedagogy and Education

28 Ethnography and Anthropology

29 Early Critical Reception

30 Critical Theory

31 Deconstruction

32 Reading Kafka

33 Editions

34 Translation

35 Film Adaptations

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