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Franz Kafka in Context Edited by Carolin Duttlinger Frontmatter More Information Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08549-7 — Franz Kafka in Context Edited by Carolin Duttlinger Frontmatter More Information FRANZ KAFKA IN CONTEXT Franz Kafka (1883–1924) lived through one of the most turbulent peri- ods in modern history, witnessing a world war, the dissolution of an empire and the foundation of a new nation state. But the early twenti- eth century was also a time of social progress and aesthetic experimen- tation. Kafka’s novels and short stories relect their author’s keen but critical engagement with the big questions of his time, and yet often Kafka is still cast as a solitary igure with little or no connection to his age. Franz Kafka in Context aims to redress this perception. In thirty-ive short, accessible essays, leading international scholars explore Kafka’s personal and working life, his reception of art and cul- ture, his engagement with political and social issues, and his ongoing reception and inluence. Together they ofer a nuanced and histori- cally grounded image of a writer whose work continues to fascinate readers from all backgrounds. carolin duttlinger is Associate Professor in German at the Uni- versity of Oxford, a Fellow of Wadham College, and Co-Director of the Oxford Kafka Research Centre. An international expert on Ger- man modernism, she has been awarded numerous prizes and fellow- ships, including the Zvi-Meitar/Vice-Chancellor Oxford University Research Prize in the Humanities. She is the author of Kafka and Photography (2007) and The Cambridge Introduction to Franz Kafka (2013), the editor of Franz Kafkas ‘Betrachtung’: Neue Lektüren (2014) and the co-editor of Walter Benjamins anthropologisches Denken (2012) and Weimar Photography in Context (2017). © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08549-7 — Franz Kafka in Context Edited by Carolin Duttlinger Frontmatter More Information FRANZ KAFKA IN CONTEXT edited by CAROLIN DUTTLINGER University of Oxford © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08549-7 — Franz Kafka in Context Edited by Carolin Duttlinger Frontmatter More Information University Printing House, Cambridge cb2 8bs, United Kingdom One Liberty Plaza, 20th Floor, New York, ny 10006, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, vic 3207, Australia 314-321, 3rd Floor, Plot 3, Splendor Forum, Jasola District Centre, New Delhi - 110025, India 79 Anson Road, #06-04/06, Singapore 079906 Cambridge University Press is part of the University of Cambridge. It furthers the University’s mission by disseminating knowledge in the pursuit of education, learning, and research at the highest international levels of excellence. www.cambridge.org Information on this title: www.cambridge.org/9781107085497 doi: 10.1017/9781316084243 C Cambridge University Press 2018 This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press. First published 2018 Printed in the United Kingdom by Clays, St Ives plc A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data Names: Duttlinger, Carolin, 1976– editor. Title: Franz Kafka in context / edited by Carolin Duttlinger. Description: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017. | Series: Literature in context | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiiers: LCCN 2017034613 | isbn 9781107085497 (hardback) Subjects: LCSH: Kafka, Franz, 1883–1924 – Criticism and interpretation. | Prague (Czech Republic) – Intellectual life – History – 20th century. Classiication: LCC pt2621.a26 z71847 2017 | DDC 833/.912–dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017034613 isbn 978-1-107-08549-7 Hardback Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08549-7 — Franz Kafka in Context Edited by Carolin Duttlinger Frontmatter More Information Contents List of Illustrations page viii Notes on Contributors ix Chronology xviii List of Abbreviations and Note on the Texts xxiii Introduction 1 Carolin Duttlinger part i life and work 1Family 9 Anthony Northey 2 Friendship 18 Claudia Nitschke 3 Women 26 Elizabeth Boa 4Work 35 Benno Wagner 5 Health and Illness 44 Johannes Türk 6 Writing 54 Manfred Engel 7Style 62 Ritchie Robertson v © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08549-7 — Franz Kafka in Context Edited by Carolin Duttlinger Frontmatter More Information vi Contents part ii art and literature 8 Literary Modernism 73 Judith Ryan 9 Kafka’s Reading 82 Ritchie Robertson 10 Gesture 91 Lucia Ruprecht 11 Performance and Recitation 100 Lothar Müller 12 Film 109 Silke Horstkotte 13 Photography 117 J. J. Long 14 Music 128 Thomas Martinec 15 Architecture 137 Roger Thiel part iii politics, culture, history 16 Prague: History and Culture 149 Marek Nekula 17 Czech Language and Literature 159 Peter Zusi 18 The First World War 167 Mark Cornwall 19 Travel, Colonialism and Exoticism 176 Matthias Zach 20 Law 183 Theodore Ziolkowski 21 Philosophy 191 Ben Morgan 22 Religion 200 Daniel Weidner © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08549-7 — Franz Kafka in Context Edited by Carolin Duttlinger Frontmatter More Information Contents vii 23 Judaism and Zionism 208 Katja Garlof 24 Psychology and Psychoanalysis 216 Carolin Duttlinger 25 Gender and Sexuality 225 Mark M. Anderson 26 The City 233 Andrew J. Webber 27 Childhood, Pedagogy and Education 241 Katharina Laszlo 28 Ethnography and Anthropology 249 Nicola Gess part iv reception and influence 29 Early Critical Reception 259 Ruth V. Gross 30 Critical Theory 267 Anthony Phelan 31 Deconstruction 275 Stanley Corngold 32 Reading Kafka 283 Emily T. Troscianko 33 Editions 293 Clayton Koelb 34 Translation 302 Mark Harman 35 Film Adaptations 310 Dora Osborne Further Reading 318 Index 331 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08549-7 — Franz Kafka in Context Edited by Carolin Duttlinger Frontmatter More Information Illustrations 1 Laurin and Klement Team. Sport a hry No. 20, 21 June 1905, p. 242. Czech National Library Prague page 13 2 Title page of the irst edition of In der Strafkolonie (1919) with a handwritten dedication by Kafka’s parents: ‘Zum Andenken von unserem verstorbenen Sohn | Julie Kafka. | Prag 20.5.1926, Hermann Kafka’ (‘In memory of our late son’). Anthony Northey, private collection 16 3 Page from the manuscript of Der Process. Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach 59 4 Fairground novelty photograph of Kafka with (left to right): Albert Ehrenstein, Otto Pick and Lise Kaznelson, Vienna Prater, 1913. Archiv Klaus Wagenbach 124 5 Karel Teige, Greetings from a Journey (1923). Courtesy of the Estate of Karel Teige and DILIA, Prague 125 6 ‘Of the castle hill there was nothing to be seen.’ A reader’s Kafkaesque imagining 289 viii © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08549-7 — Franz Kafka in Context Edited by Carolin Duttlinger Frontmatter More Information Notes on Contributors mark m. anderson is Professor of German literature in the Department of Germanic Languages and Director of Deutsches Haus at Columbia University. The author of Kafka’s Clothes: Ornament and Aestheticism in the Habsburg Fin de Siècle (1992) and editor of Reading Kafka: Prague, Politics and the Fin de Siècle (1989), he helped to introduce a new histor- ical reading of Kafka. He recently edited Kafka’s The Metamorphosis for the Norton Critical Editions series. He has also written widely on Ger- man literature from the modernist period to post-war authors such as Paul Celan, Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard and W. G. Sebald, and is currently working on a book about W. G. Sebald’s youth. elizabeth boa is Professor Emerita of German at the University of Nottingham. Her publications on Kafka include Kafka: Gender, Class, and Race in the Letters and Fictions (1996); ‘The Castle’ in The Cam- bridge Companion to Kafka (2002); ‘Karl Rossmann or the Boy who Wouldn’t Grow Up’ in Mary Orr and Lesley Sharpe (eds.), From Goethe to Gide: Feminism, Aesthetics and the French and German Literary Canon (2005); ‘Figurenkonstellationen’ in Manfred Engel and Bernd Auerochs (eds.), Kafka Handbuch (2010); ‘Inside/Outside: Topographies of Self and World in Kafka’s Betrachtung’ in Carolin Duttlinger (ed.), Kafkas Betrachtung: Neue Lektüren (2014); and ‘Observations on Time and Motion: Kafka’s Betrachtung and the Visual Arts around 1912’ in Anne Fuchs and J. J. Long (eds.), Time in German Literature and Culture 1900– 2015 (2016). stanley corngold is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at Princeton University. In 2009, with Benno Wagner and Jack Greenberg, he edited, with commentary, Franz Kafka: The Oice Writings. In 2010, he published, with Benno Wagner, Franz Kafka: The Ghosts in the Machine and edited, with Ruth V. Gross, a collection of essays titled Kafka for the Twenty-First Century. Since then he has edited, ix © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-08549-7 — Franz Kafka in Context Edited by Carolin Duttlinger Frontmatter More Information x Notes on Contributors with his translation, a Modern Library edition of Kafka’s The Metamor- phosis, translated Goethe’s The Suferings of Young Werther and completed an intellectual biography of the philosopher Walter Kaufmann. mark cornwall is Professor of Modern European History at the Univer- sity of Southampton. He specializes in the late Habsburg Empire and twentieth-century Eastern Europe, especially the evolution of Czech, Hungarian and South Slav nationalism.
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