Franz Kafka's The metamorphosis

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. - Book jacket.;"The Metamorphosis" / James Rolleston -- The liberation of Gregor Samsa / John Winkelman -- Insect transformations as a narcissistic metaphor in Kafka's Metamorphosis / J. Brooks Bouson -- "The judgment" and "The metamorphosis" / Allen Thiher -- Competing theories of identity in Kafka's The metamorphosis / Kevin W. Sweeney -- Sliding down the evolutionary ladder? aesthetic autonomy in The metamorphosis / Mark M. Anderson -- Sounding out the silence of Gregor Samsa: Kafka's rhetoric of dys-communication / Robert Weninger -- The sense of an unding: Kafka, Ovid, and the misfits of metamorphosis / Michael G. Levine -- Kafka's Metamorphosis and the search for meaning in twentieth-century German literature / Margit M. Sinka -- Metamorphosis: defending the human / Michael Rowe.