Expeditions to Kafka

Stanley Corngold is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University, USA, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of 10 books, including, The Mind in Exile (Princeton University Press, 2022). He has edited 11 books, including the Norton Critical Edition of Kafka’s Selected Stories (ed. and trans., with preface, notes and critical apparatus) and the Modern Library edition of The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (ed. and trans., with introduction, notes, and critical materials).

• PrefaceAbbreviations for Works CitedIntroduction: Franz Kafka--A Conspectus in DialoguePART I: INDIVIDUAL WORKSChapter 1 Caveat: A Personal Overture to The MetamorphosisChapter 2 Kafka’s HermeneuticsChapter 3 The Metamorphosis, Goethe’s Werther, and the BibleChapter 4 Kafka, The Radical ModernistChapter 5 Ritardando in The Castle PART II: KAFKA GENERALLYChapter 6 Kafka, Connoisseur of Mythical ThinkingChapter 7 Special Views on Kafka’s Cages Chapter 8 The Singular Accident in a Universe of RiskChapter 9 Kafka on Property and its RelationsPART III: KAFKA IN DIALOGUE WITH COLLOQUISTS Chapter 10 Aphoristic Form in Nietzsche and KafkaChapter 11 Gershom Scholem’s Gnostically-Minded View of Kafka Chapter 12 Kafka’s “A Report to An Academy” with AdornoPART IV: CRITICAL PERSPECTIVESChapter 13 Kafka and Dominant Critical ApproachesAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorIndex

The essays in the present volume demonstrate why Corngold is responsible in great degree for readers' understanding of Kafka's literary imagination. Corngold provides a critical road map through nearly a century of Kafka scholarship, with footnotes genuflecting to the previous generation ... Recommended [for] lower-division undergraduates through faculty; general readers.