... , 1973 . Baudrillard Jean . Oublier Foucault . Paris : Galilée , 1977 . Beauvoir Simone de . Privileges . Paris : Gallimard , 1955 . Benjamin Walter . “ Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of his Death .” Illuminations . Trans. Zohn Harry . New York...

...Mladen Dolar The article examines the nature of sound by taking as its starting point Kafka’s story “The Burrow,” in which an animal, a badger, builds an elaborate and labyrinthine burrow as a bastion of protection against the outside. In this refuge it is disturbed by the intrusion of a sound...

...'' (that word which, Jacques Derrida says, humans have given themselves the right to give to others) has become a test or limit case: the linguistic turn, the post- or counter-linguistic turn, and the ethical turn. It is also a report that builds on the words of Kafka's ape, Red Peter, who, in his ``Report...

...) and a science fiction writer (Stanislaw Lem). The overt clash takes place in a polemical article by Lem, in which he attacks Todorov’s theory of the fantastic. Not so obviously, the writer’s revolt against the theoretician imbues Lem’s masterpiece “The Mask.” Kafka’s novella “The Metamorphosis” plays...

... of promising and its forgetting— and discovers, at the very foundation of every promise, the unlikely expression of a promise of oblivion. Through readings of Sacher-Masoch, Nietzsche, Kafka, and others, this promise of oblivion emerges as the very condition of possibility of all promising: oblivion must...

... . Kafka Franz . “ The Silence of the Sirens .” Homer: A Collection of Critical Essays . Ed. Steiner George and Eagles Robert . Englewood Cliffs : Schocken Books Kafka Franz . “ Before the Law .” The Complete Stories . Ed. Glatzer Nahum N. . New York : Schocken Books...

..., and the Foundations of Puerto Rican Literature in the United States .” 8 . 1 : 132 – 51 . Currie Sarah . “ The Killer Within: Christianity and the Invention of Murder in the Roman World .” 8 . 2 : 153 – 73 . Epps Brad . “ Technoasceticism and Authorial Death in Sade, Kafka, Barthes, and Foucault...

... . Kafka Franz . “ The Silence of the Sirens .” 1936, 1937 . The Great Wall of China: Stories and Reflections . Trans. Willa Muir Edwin . New York : Schocken , 1946 . 248 – 50 . Nancy Jean-Luc . Listening . 2002 . Trans. Mandell Charlotte . New York : Fordham UP , 2007...

... inquiry concerned the status of “women’s studies” as an institution. INTRODUCTION: In reference to the lecture on Kafka’s text,1 one can say that if the Law is the condition of the institution, if the institution is the Law...

... move. See esp. the chapter titled the way Kafka’s Gregor Samsa “Reopening the Question of the metamorphoses into a bug. Human and the Animal,” where...

... up, 1965 . ———. On the Soul. Parva Naturalia. On Breath . Trans. W. S. Hett. Cambridge, ma: Harvard up, 1973 . Bowie, A. M. Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual, and Comedy . Cambridge: Cambridge up, 1993 . Deleuze, Gilles, and Félix Guattari. Kafka: Toward a Minor Literature . 1975 . Trans...

...” and the “ultimate reality”; but her texts are no more exhausted by Christian doctrine than Kafka’s texts are exhausted by the Oedipal interpretation they seem to solicit. O’Connor’s Catholicism, rather, is the “superfi cial movement” of her...

...Charles Bernheimer Copyright © 1992 by Brown University and differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies 1992 Works Cited Bernheimer Charles . “ ‘Castration’ as Fetish .” Paragraph 14 ( 1991 ): 1 - 9 . Bernheimer Charles . Flaubert and Kafka: Studies...

...://www.iucnredlist.org ( accessed 4 May 2013 ). Kafka Franz . “ The Silence of the Sirens .” Trans. Willa Muir Edwin . The Complete Stories . New York : Schocken , 1995 . 430 – 32 . Keenan Thomas . Fables of Responsibility: Aberrations and Predicaments in Ethics and Politics . Stanford...

.... “Some Reflections on Kafka.” Illuminations: Essays and Reflections . Trans. Harry Zohn. New York: Schocken, 1969 . 141 –45. ———. Das Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit . Suhrkamp: Frankfurt am Main, 1966 . ———. The Origin of German Tragic Drama . Trans. John Osborne...

... sutures of authority build and burn bridges in the literary 56 Answering to Authority and the Politics of the Father expanses that define the Kafka-coded terrain, preparing new edges...

... , 1985 . Jenkins Henry III. “ Going Bonkers: Children, Play and Pee-wee .” Camera Obscura 17 ( 1988 ): 169 - 94 . Kafka Franz . The Metamorphosis . Trans. Corngold Stanley . Toronto : Bantam , 1972 . Lacan Jacques . Feminine Sexuality . Ed. Mitchell Juliet...

... Kafka as well. In other words, is unconscious communication transparent and effective or does it function more like the missive in Kafka’s “The Imperial Message,” where a mes- sage is sent but circuits through so many detours...

..., there is sometimes “play” in the mechanism, which means that it can veer in a different relation, or it can, indeed, fall apart and fail to reproduce in the way for which it is designed. Most of Kafka’s efforts to treat the mechanical foreground this constitutive possibility of breakdown, or malfunction...

... in an "Autobiographical" text by Kofman, an appearance if not by name, or direct representation, then by an unmistakable image. The text is a brief one, entitled "Tomb for a Proper Name," in which Kofman relates a dream she had. In the dream, she reads on the cover of a book: KAFKA translated by Sar Ko(a)f Why, she...