The Metamorphosis - Franz Kafka
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Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis climaxes in the very first line-the protagonist has indeed been transformed. The critical questions lie in the interpretation of the change. Kafka has been said to have offered everything from a psychological parable of the Oedipal struggle to a caricature of psychological readings. In this collection of new critical essays, one of the enduring classics of twentieth-century world literature is once again examined in all its complexity and resonance.
Editor's Note viiIntroduction Harold Bloom 1"The Metamorphosis" James Rolleston 5The Liberation of Gregor Samsa John Winkelman 23Insect Transformation as a Narcissistic Metaphor in Kafka's Metamorphosis J. Brooks Bouson 35"The Judgment" and "The Metamorphosis" Allen Thiher 47Competing Theories of Identity in Kafka's The Metamorphosis Kevin W. Sweeney 63Sliding Down the Evolutionary Ladder? Aesthetic Autonomy in The Metamorphosis Mark M. Anderson 77Sounding Out the Silence of Gregor Samsa: Kafka's Rhetoric of Dys-Communication Robert Weninger 95The Sense of an Unding: Kafka, Ovid, and the Misfits of Metamorphosis Michael G. Levine 117Kafka's Metamorphosis and the Search for Meaning in Twentieth-Century German Literature Margit M. Sinka 145Metamorphosis: Defending the Human Michael Rowe 155Chronology 171Contributors 175Bibliography 179Acknowledgments 181Index 183
