Kafka's selected stories : new translations, backgrounds and contexts, criticism

Kafka's selected stories : new translations, backgrounds and contexts, criticism / translated and edited by Stanley Corngold, Princeton University.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 (Author)
Other Authors: Corngold, Stanley (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2007]
Series:Norton critical edition.
Subjects:
Kafka, Franz, > 1883-1924 > Translations into English.
Kafka, Franz, > 1883-1924 > Criticism and interpretation.
Short stories.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Translations.
Uniform Title:Short stories.
Table of Contents:
  • The Texts of Kafka's Selected Stories 1
  • The Judgment
  • A Story 3
  • The Stoker
  • A Fragment 12
  • In the Penal Colony 35
  • A Country Doctor
  • Little Stories 59
  • The New Lawyer 59
  • A Country Doctor 60
  • Up in the Gallery 65
  • A Page from an Old Document 66
  • Before the Law 68
  • Jackals and Arabs 69
  • The Worry of the Father of the Family 72
  • A Fratricide 73
  • A Dream 75
  • A Report to an Academy 76
  • A Starvation Artist
  • Four Stories 84
  • First Distress 84
  • A Starvation Artist 86
  • Josefine, the Singer or The Mouse People 94
  • Posthumously Published Stories 108
  • The Bridge 108
  • The Hunter Gracchus
  • Two Fragments 109
  • Building the Great Wall of China 113
  • The Knock at the Courtyard Gate 124
  • A Crossbreed 125
  • An Everyday Event 127
  • The Silence of the Sirens 127
  • Prometheus 129
  • On the Question of the Laws 129
  • Poseidon 131
  • Researches of a Dog 132
  • On Parables 161
  • The Burrow 162
  • Backgrounds and Contexts: [Letters, Diaries, and Conversations] 193
  • Criticism
  • / Stanley Corngold
  • Preface to an Understanding of Kafka 217
  • In the Circle of "The Judgment" 221
  • / Danielle Allen
  • Sounding Silence 235
  • / Walter Hinderer
  • An Anecdote by Kafka: "A Fratricide" 246
  • / Walter Sokel
  • Identity and the Individual, or Past and Present 252
  • / Nicola Gess
  • The Politics of Listening: The Power of Song in Kafka's "Josefine, the Singer" 275
  • / Vivian Liska
  • Positions: On Franz Kafka's "Poseidon" 288
  • / Benno Wagner
  • "No one indicates the direction": The Question of Leadership in Kafka's Later Stories 302
  • / John A. Hargraves
  • Kafka and Silence: An Alternate View of Music 321
  • / Gerhard Kurz
  • The Rustling of Stillness: Approaches to Kafka's The Burrow 333
  • Franz Kafka: A Chronology 357.

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