...Eyal Segal 2004 New Books at a Glance Julian Preece, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Kafka. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni- versity Press, 2002. xix + 254 pp. This collection of fourteen essays aims to offer a rounded contemporary account and appraisal of this distinctive and influential...

...Eyal Segal 2004 New Books at a Glance Julian Preece, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Kafka. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni- versity Press, 2002. xix + 254 pp. This collection of fourteen essays aims to offer a rounded contemporary account and appraisal of this distinctive and influential...

... of justice. To explain the phenomenon, this essay draws an analogy to poetic techniques that inform Franz Kafka's universe of discourse (prolepsis, actualization of figures of speech, illocutions lacking conventional force). The concluding section illustrates howguilt that was suppressed for fifteen years...

...Eyal Segal Jakob Lothe, Beatrice Sandberg, and Ronald Speirs, eds., Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhetoric, and Reading . Columbus : Ohio State University Press , 2011 . x + 251 pp. © 2013 by Porter Institute for Poetics and Semiotics 2013 New Books at a Glance Frederick Aldama, ed...

... narrative, associating aura with early portrait photography but also with its successor, the commercial studio portrait. The childhood photograph of Franz Kafka, whose melancholy air serves Benjamin as an example of a paradoxical, post-auratic aura, recurs in his childhood memoirs, where the narrator...

...Michael Huffmaster This essay investigates Kafka's first great story, “The Judgment,” through the lens of speech act theory. It argues that performative analysis can yield new insights into the text, with consequences for our understanding of the author's larger poetic project. It also shows how...

..., Mansfield, Musil, Kafka) to detect convergences and divergences. The results disclose a multifaceted complex of social and literary factors and forces in a changing polysystem: traces of confessional segregation before and secularization after the second World War, the advent of the second feminist wave...

... from Chaucer, Kafka, and Borges, we argue for cases that exhibit a more complex dynamic, with the reader’s direction of attention varying from the real to fictional world and from low to high suspension of disbelief. We claim that immersion may also take place in works where the reader is more focused...

... approach, which focuses on narratives that depart from and challenge everyday cognitive parameters, including those involved in so-called literary realism. In this introduction to the special issue, we take our cue from Franz Kafka’s “ Wish to Become a Red Indian” (a paragraph-long short story...

... in the modernist era, for on the margins of mainstream modernism were“alternative” machines, machines of reproduction and simulation—writing-machines, imaging-machines, duplicating-machines—such as those of Alfred Jarry, Marcel Duchamp, Franz Kafka, and,especially, Raymond Roussel. Such machines have proliferated...

... of Emotions (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). New Books at a Glance Julian Preece, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Kafka. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni- versity Press, 2002. xix + 254 pp. This collection of fourteen essays aims to offer a rounded contemporary account and appraisal...

...Glenda Sacks 2004 New Books at a Glance Julian Preece, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Kafka. Cambridge: Cambridge Uni- versity Press, 2002. xix + 254 pp. This collection of fourteen essays aims to offer a rounded contemporary account and appraisal of this distinctive...

..., or in some combination of the two? Consider Kafka, one of the authors who, in Foucault's view, “creat[es] a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears” (206). What if this author were to disappear entirely? What if we imagine that the works that have, until now, been attributed to Franz...

... 408 Poetics Today 34:3 Jakob Lothe, Beatrice Sandberg, and Ronald Speirs, eds., Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhet- oric, and Reading. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011. x 1 251 pp. This volume is based on a symposium on Franz Kafka that took place in May 2006 at the Centre for Advanced...

... 408 Poetics Today 34:3 Jakob Lothe, Beatrice Sandberg, and Ronald Speirs, eds., Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhet- oric, and Reading. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011. x 1 251 pp. This volume is based on a symposium on Franz Kafka that took place in May 2006 at the Centre for Advanced...

... 408 Poetics Today 34:3 Jakob Lothe, Beatrice Sandberg, and Ronald Speirs, eds., Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhet- oric, and Reading. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011. x 1 251 pp. This volume is based on a symposium on Franz Kafka that took place in May 2006 at the Centre for Advanced...

... 408 Poetics Today 34:3 Jakob Lothe, Beatrice Sandberg, and Ronald Speirs, eds., Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhet- oric, and Reading. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011. x 1 251 pp. This volume is based on a symposium on Franz Kafka that took place in May 2006 at the Centre for Advanced...

... 408 Poetics Today 34:3 Jakob Lothe, Beatrice Sandberg, and Ronald Speirs, eds., Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhet- oric, and Reading. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011. x 1 251 pp. This volume is based on a symposium on Franz Kafka that took place in May 2006 at the Centre for Advanced...

... 408 Poetics Today 34:3 Jakob Lothe, Beatrice Sandberg, and Ronald Speirs, eds., Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhet- oric, and Reading. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011. x 1 251 pp. This volume is based on a symposium on Franz Kafka that took place in May 2006 at the Centre for Advanced...

... 408 Poetics Today 34:3 Jakob Lothe, Beatrice Sandberg, and Ronald Speirs, eds., Franz Kafka: Narration, Rhet- oric, and Reading. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2011. x 1 251 pp. This volume is based on a symposium on Franz Kafka that took place in May 2006 at the Centre for Advanced...