From Kafka to Sebald : modernism and narrative form /

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1. Introduction : Kafka, Modernism, and Beyond / Sabine Wilke -- Part I. …”
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Imperial messages : Orientalism as self-critique in the Habsburg fin de siècle / by Lemon, Robert, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Empiricist empires: Hofmannsthal's domestic Orientalism -- Empirical mysticism and imperial mystique: Orientalism in Musil's Die Verwirrungen des Zoglings Torless -- Sovereign subject under siege: ethnology and ethnocentrism in Kafka's "Description of a struggle, "Jackals und Arabs," and "In the penal colony" -- Contingent continent: Kafka's China in "Beim Bau der Chinesischen Mauer" and "Ein altes Blatt."…”
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Modernism without Jews? : German-Jewish subjects and histories / by Spector, Scott, 1959-

Subjects: “…Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924.…”

Lectures on literature / by Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977

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Deutschsprachige Romane der klassischen Moderne /

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Literatur, Wissenschaft und Wissen seit der Epochenschwelle um 1800 : Theorie, Epistemologie, komparatistische Fallstudien /

Table of Contents: “…Das literarische Wissen vom Ding am Beispiel Franz Kafkas --…”
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Animal fables after Darwin : literature, speciesism, and metaphor / by Danta, Chris

Table of Contents: “…Ant TheologyFrog Perspective; Ape Perspective; Chapter 4 ''An Animal among the Animals'': Wells and the Thought of the Future; The Discovery of the Future; Animalizing the Present; The Island of Doctor Moreau; A Topological Fable; Chapter 5 Animal Bachelors and Animal Brides: Kafka, Carter, Garnett; Perforating the Human; Animal Masquerades; ''Animals Are Closer to Us Than Human Beings''; Chapter 6 Scapegoats and Scapegraces: Becoming Sacrificial Animal in Kafka and Coetzee; Scapegoat: The Narrative Animal; What Is It Like to Be a Scapegoat? …”
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Imagined cities : urban experience and the language of the novel / by Alter, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Flaubert--the demise of the spectator -- Flaubert--urban poetics -- Dickens--the realism of metaphor -- Dickens--intimations of apocalypse -- Bely--phantasmatic city -- Woolf--urban pastoral -- Joyce--metropolitan shuffle -- Kafka--suspicion and the city.…”
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From continuity to contiguity : toward a new Jewish literary thinking / by Miron, Dan

Table of Contents: “…-- The "old" Jewish literary discourse and the illusion of Israeli cultural normalcy -- Modern Jewish literary thinking: the enlightenment and the advent of nationalism -- The Jewish literary renaissance at the turn of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries -- The inter-bellum decades: Hebrew -- The inter-bellum decades: Yiddish : issues of cultural continuity in revolutionary times -- Vertical and horizontal continuities and discontinuities -- Dov Sadan's concept of sifrut yisrael, and why the "old" Jewish literary discourse became irrelevant -- Jewish diglossias, differential and integral -- Contiguity: Franz Kafka's standing within the modern Jewish literary complex -- Contiguity: how Kafka and Sholem Aleichem are contiguous -- Conclusion: toward a new Jewish literary thinking -- Breathing through both nostrils? …”
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Ethics and aesthetics in European modernist literature : from the sublime to the uncanny / by Ellison, David R.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; Abbreviations; PART I Kant, Romantic irony, Unheimlichkeit; PART II The Romantic heritage and Modernist fiction; EPILOGUE Narrative and music in Kafka and Blanchot: the singingŽ of Josefine; Notes; Works cited; Index.…”
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Metamorphosis in modern German literature : transforming bodies, identities and affects / by Beaney, Tara

Table of Contents: “…Hoffmann -- 2. Being animal : Kafka and the wordless world -- 3. Cocooned from the past : temporal subversion in Marie Luise Kaschnitz and Jenny Erpenbeck -- 4. …”
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Architecture and modern literature / by Spurr, David, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…An end to dwelling: architectural and literary modernisms -- Demonic spaces: Sade, Dickens, Kafka -- Allegories of the gothic in the long nineteenth century -- Figures of ruin and restoration: Ruskin and Viollet-le-duc -- Proust's interior Venice -- Monumental displacement in Ulysses -- Architecture in Frost and Stevens -- Annals of junkspace: architectural disaffection in contemporary literature.…”
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The infrahuman : animality in modern Jewish literature / by Pines, Noam, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Abramovitsh's di Kliatshe -- Into the bowels of the earth: prophecy and animality in the poetry of Hayim Nachman Bialik and Uri Zvi Greenberg -- At home in a distorted life: the dog as a constellation in the work of Franz Kafka -- After the Holocaust: responses to the infrahuman in the works of S.Y. …”
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Music, masculinity and the claims of history : the Austro-German tradition from Hegel to Freud / by Biddle, Ian D.

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Introduction; 1 Discourse Channels: Listening as a Cultural-Historical Category in the Austro-German Frühromantik; 3 Rage Against the Rabble: Gender Nostalgia and the Metropolitan Imagination in Heinrich Schenker's Kontrapunkt (1910 and 1922); 4 Song of the Body: Mahler, Kafka and the Male Jewish Body at the Habsburg fin de siècle; 5 Postlude; Bibliography; Index…”
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Eardrums : Literary Modernism as Sonic Warfare. by Whitney, Tyler

Table of Contents: “…Into the Inaudible: Sound and Imperception in Kafka's Late WritingsConclusion. Nazi Soundscapes and Their Reverberation in Postwar Culture; Notes; Works Cited; Index…”
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Citation and precedent : conjunctions and disjunctions of German law and literature / by Beebee, Thomas O.

Table of Contents: “…-- In search of the invisible precedent : Grimm writes to Savigny -- Kant, codification, and Goethe's elective affinities -- A recursive process : Kafka's law -- and ours -- Walter Benjamin reads the Weimar Constitution -- From Schiller to Schund : Zensur and the canonization of literature -- German literature fights for its rights : a thick description of an incident of Weimar literary culture -- Carl Schmitt and/as Benito Cereno -- Citation as second-order observation : Peter Weiss's The investigation.…”
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At the limit of the obscene : German realism and the disgrace of matter / by Weitzman, Erica

Table of Contents: “…Dead Ends: Gottfried Benn -- Chapter 6. Filth: Franz Kafka -- Coda: "As if she were saying something shameless" -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index…”
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Proust, Mann, Joyce in the modernist context / by Gillespie, Gerald, 1933-

Table of Contents: “…Afterthoughts of Hamlet : Goethe's Wilhelm, Joyce's Stephen ; Educational experiment in Thomas Mann ; The music of things and the hieroglyphics of family talk in Joyce's fictions ; The ways of Hermes in the works of Thomas Mann ; Harrowing Hell with Proust, Joyce, and Mann ; The haunted narrator before the gate (Joyce, Kafka, Hesse, Butor) ; Structures of the self and narrative ; Palimpsest, essay : history, myth ; By way of conclusion : the artifice of eternity.…”
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Jews and the making of modern German theatre /

Table of Contents: “…/ Peter Jelavich --- Stagestruck: Jewish attitudes to the theatre in Wilhelmine Germany / Anat Feinberg -- Yiddish theatre and its impact on the German and Austrian stage / Delphine Bechtel -- German and Jewish "theatromania": Theodor Lessing's Theatre-Seele between Goethe and Kafka / Bernhard Greiner -- Arnold Zweig and the critics: reconsidering the Jewish "contribution" to German theatre / Peter W. …”
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Metamorphosis : transformations of the body and the influence of Ovid's Metamorphoses on Germanic literature of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / by Gallagher, David

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