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• Cover
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Fictional writings
• Non-fictional writings
• Life
• 1883–1912: childhood, youth and first employment
• 1912–1917: breakthrough, intimacy and crisis
• 1917–1924: illness, reflection, late happiness
• Contexts
• The modern city: avant-garde, mass culture, pathology
• Psychoanalysis and intergenerational conflict
• Kafka’s Prague: multiculturalism, Judaism, Zionism
• Works
• Early works
• ‘Description of a Struggle’
• ‘Wedding Preparations in the Country’
• The early diaries: a creative laboratory
• Meditation
• ‘The Judgement’ and The Metamorphosis
• ‘The Judgement’
• The Metamorphosis
• Gregor’s transformation: metaphor, punishment, release
• Family narratives
• Music, death and new beginnings
• The Man who Disappeared
• Beginnings: ‘The Stoker’
• Kafka’s America: crowds and capitalism
• Masculinity in crisis: gender, sexuality, desire
• The Oklahama Theatre: a new beginning?
• The Trial
• Between dream and reality
• Playing the part
• Power and desire
• ‘Before the Law’
• ‘The End’
• ‘In the Penal Colony’ and A Country Doctor
• ‘In the Penal Colony’
• A Country Doctor
• Outsiders: animals and artists
• Reading and writing
• Responsibility
• The Castle
• An insomniac novel
• Routes into The Castle
• K. and the castle
• Encounters
• The dangers of autonomy
• Routes out of The Castle
• ‘Investigations of a Dog’, ‘The Burrow’, A Hunger Artist
• ‘Investigations of a Dog’
• ‘The Burrow’
• A Hunger Artist
• ‘First Sorrow’
• ‘A Hunger Artist’
• ‘A Little Woman’
• ‘Josefine, the Singer or The Mouse-People’
• Writing in the light of death
• Scholarship and adaptations
• Editions and translations
• Kafka scholarship: the challenge of interpretation
• Benjamin and Adorno: returning to the text
• Psychoanalysis: Oedipus and beyond
• Deconstruction
• Cultural-historical readings
• Kafka in film: the challenge of adaptation
• Orson Welles, The Trial
• Straub/Huillet, Class Relations
• Michael Haneke, The Castle
• Notes
• 1 Life
• 2 Contexts
• 3 Works
• 4 Scholarship and adaptations
• Guide to further reading
• Editions of Kafka’s works
• English
• German
• Other primary sources
• Select bibliography of secondary literature
• Biography
• Historical context
• Critical studies
• Index