Julian Preece is Senior Lecturer at the School of European Culture and Languages at the University of Kent at Canterbury. He is the author (with Waldemar Lotnik) of Nine Lives: Ethnic Conflict in the Polish-Ukrainian Borderlands and The Life and Work of Günter Grass: Literature, History, Politics (2001).
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Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Kafka's Europe Julian Preece
1. Kafka's writing and our reading David Constantine
2. A psychoanalytic reading of The Man Who Disappeared Anne Fuchs
3. The exploration of the modern city in The Trial Rolf J. Goebel
4. The Castle Elizabeth Boa
5. Kafka's short fiction Ruth V. Gross
6. Kafka's later stories and aphorisms Stanley Corngold
7. The letters and diaries Julian Preece
8. The case for a political reading Bill Dodd
9. Kafka and Jewish folklore Iris Bruce
10. Kafka and gender Dagmar C. G. Lorenz
11. Myths and realities in Kafka biography Anthony Northey
12. Editions, translations, adaptations Osman Durrani
13. Kafka adapted to film Helen Hughes and Martin Brady
14. Kafka and popular culture Iris Bruce
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