Lambent traces: Franz Kafka

Preface xi Abbreviations for Citations xvii Introduction: Beginnings 1 Chapter 1 the Circle of Judgment 13 Chapter 2 The Trial: The Guilt of an Unredeemed Literary Promise 37 Segue I On Cultural Immortality 45 Chapter 3 Medial Interferences in The Trial 51 Or, res in Media Chapter 4 Allotria and Excreta in In the Penal Colony 67 Segue II Death and the Medium 81 Chapter 5 Nietzsche, Kafka, and Literary Paternity 94 Chapter 6 Something to Do with the Truth 111 Kafka's Later Stories Chapter 7 Faith Like a Guillotine 126 on Skepticism Chapter 8 and the Dialect of Minor Literature 142 Chapter 9 Adorno's on Kafka 158 A Critical Reconstruction Chapter 10 On Translation Mistakes, with Special Attention to in Amerika 176 Chapter 11 The Trouble with Cultural Studies 194 Notes 205 Acknowledgments 253 Index 255