Introduction: narration and narratives in Kafka
Progression, speed, and judgment in Kafka's "Das urteil" / James Phelan
The human body and the human being in "Die Verwandlung" / Anniken Greve
"Lightning no longer flashes": Kafka's Chinese voice and the thunder of the great war / Benno Wagner
The abandoned writing desk: on Kafka's metanarratives, as exemplified by "Der Heizer" / Gerhard Neumann
Therese's story in "Der Verschollene" / Gerhard Kurz
The sense of an un-ending: the resistance to narrative closure in Kafka's "Das Schloss" / J. Hillis Miller
Starting in the middle? complications of narrative beginnings and progression in Kafka / Beatrice Sandberg
The narrative beginning of Kafka's "In der Strafkolonie" / Jakob Lothe
Musical indirections in Kafka's "Forschungen eines Hundes" / Stanley Corngold
The dynamics of narration in betrachtung: "Das Urteil," and Kafka's reflections on writing / Ronald Speirs.