Books
- J. Rolleston. Naratives of Ecstasy: Romantic Temporality in Modern German Poetry. Wayne State University Press, 1987.
- J. Rolleston. Kafka's Narrative Theater. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1974.
- J. Rolleston. Rilke in Transition: An Exploration of His Earliest Poetry. Yale University Press, 1970.
Edited Volumes
- J. Rolleston. A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka. Camden House, 2002.
- J. Rolleston. Contemporary German Poetry. Studies in Twentieth Century Literature (special issue) 21.1
(Winter, 1997). (with introduction)
- J. Rolleston. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Trial. Prentice-Hall, 1976
Articles/Essays/Chapters in Books
- J. Rolleston. "Choric Consciousness in Expressionist Poetry: Ernst Stadler, Else Lasker-Schüler, Georg Heym, Georg Trakl, Gottfried Benn." A Companion to German Expressionism. Ed. Neil Donahue. Rochester, NY: Camden House,
forthcoming.
- J. Rolleston. "Heute, 1948: Photojournalism Frames the German Present." South Atlantic Review
(forthcoming)
- J. Rolleston. "The Poetry and Poetics of the Young Rilke, 1879-1902." A Rilke Companion. Ed. Michael and Erica Metzger. Columbia, S.C.: Camden House,
2001. 40-66.
- J. Rolleston. "German Stories." German Quarterly 73.1
(Winter, 2000): 35-38.
- J. Rolleston. "After Zero Hour: The Visual Texts of Post-War Germany." South Atlantic Review 64.2
(Spring, 1999): 1-19.
- J. Rolleston. "Intervention on Interdisciplinary Studies." University in Transition. Ed. Detlef Müller-Böling et al. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Foundation,
1998.
203-206.
- J. Rolleston. "Modernism and Metamorphosis: Karin Kiwus’ Das Chinesische Examen." Studies in Twentieth Century Literature 21.1
(Winter, 1997): 111-122.
- J. Rolleston. "The Truth of Unemployment: Walter Benjamin reads his own times." South Atlantic Review 61.2
(Spring, 1996): 27-49.
- J. Rolleston. "Franz Kafka: an introduction." Major Figures of Austrian Literature: The Interwar Years 1918-1938. Ed. Donald G. Daviau. Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press,
1995.
169-200.
- J. Rolleston. "Purification unto Death: ‘A Hunger Artist’ as Allegory of Modernism." Approaches to Teaching Kafka’s Short Fiction. New York: Modern Language Association,
1995.
135-142.
- J. Rolleston. "Modern German Poetry." The New Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics. Ed. Alex Preminger and T. V. F. Brogan. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
1993.
467-474.
- J. Rolleston. "The Society of the Dead: Allegory and Freedom in Lenau’s Poetry." Traditions of Experiment from the Enlightenment to the Present: Essays in Honor of Peter Demetz. Ed. Nancy Kaiser and David Wellbery. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
1992.
107-125.
- J. Rolleston. "Duke’s New Doctorate in German Studies." Post-Wall German Studies: A Challenge for North American Colleges and Universities. Ed. Heidrun Suhr. New York: DAAD,
1992.
127-132.
- J. Rolleston. "The Uses of the Frankfurt School: New Stories on the left." Diacritics
(Winter, 1991): 87-100.
- with Rosalind A. Coleman. "Anatomy Lessons: The Destiny of a Textbook 1971-72." South Atlantic Quarterly 90.1
(January, 1991): 153-173.
- J. Rolleston (part author). "Dialect Poetry." The New Princeton Encyclopedia.
- J. Rolleston. "Imagining the Sixties: Herbert Marcuse and his American Opponents." Fictions of Culture: Essays in Honor of Walter H. Sokel. Ed. Steven Taubeneck. N. Y.: Peter Lang,
1991.
287-307.
- J. Rolleston. "The Legacy of Idealism: Schiller, Mörike and Biedermeier Culture." Modern Language Quarterly 51.4
(December, 1990): 491-512.
- J. Rolleston. "Biedermeier and the Romantic poetics of ‘Bildung:’ Mörike’s ‘Im Frühling’." Mörike’s Muses. Ed. Mörike’s Muses. Columbia, S. C.: Camden House,
1990.
151-163.
- J. Rolleston. "Modernism and Repetition: Kafka’s Literary Technologies." Journal of the Kafka Society of America Twelfth Year
(1990): 59-63.
- J. Rolleston. "The Politics of Quotation: Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project." PMLA 104.1
(January, 1989): 13-27.
- J. Rolleston. "Rainer Maria Rilke." Modern European Writers. monograph series9New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,
1989.
767-795.
- J. Rolleston. "Books Say More Than Their Writers Dream of (Editor’s title of essay on contemporary literary theories)." Newsday
(August 30, 1987)
- "Consuming History: An Analysis of Celan’s ‘Die Silbe Schmerz’." Psalm und Hawdalah. Zum Werk Paul Celans. Ed. Joseph P. Strelka. Bern: Peter Lang,
1987.
37-48. Reprinted in Poetry Criticism, Vol. 10, ed.
by Drew Kalasky and Jane Kosek. Detroit:
Gale Research, 1994, pp. 102-106
- J. Rolleston. "Kafka’s Time Machines." Franz Kafka: His Craft and Thought. Ed. Roman Struc and J. C. Yardley. Calgary: Wilfrid Laurier University Press,
1986.
25-48. Reprinted in Critical Essays on Franz Kafka,
ed. by Ruth V. Gross. Boston: G. K. Hall,
1990, pp. 85-104
- J. Rolleston. "Kafka-Criticism: A Typological Perspective in the Centenary Year." Kafka’s Contextuality. Ed. Alan Udoff. The Gordian Press,
1986.
1-32.
- J. Rolleston. "Betrachtung: Landschaften der Doppelgänger." Der junge Kafka. Ed. Gerhard Kurz. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag,
1984.
184-199.
- J. Rolleston. "The Discourse of Abstraction: Thinking about Art, 1904-14." Arthur Schnitzler and His Age. Ed. Petrus W. Tax and Richard H. Lawson. Bonn: Bouvier Verlag,
1984.
120-142.
- "Short Fiction in Exile: Exposure and Reclamation of a Tradition." Exile: The Writer’s Experience. Ed. John M. Spalek and Robert F. Bell. University of North Carolina Press,
1982.
32-47.
- J. Rolleston. "Der Drang nach Synthese: Benn, Brecht und die Poetik der Fünfziger Jahre." Die deutsche Lyrik von 1930 bis 1975: Zwischen Botschaft und Spiel. Ed. Klaus Weissenberger. Düsseldorf: August Bagel Verlag,
1981.
78-94.
- J. Rolleston. "Time Structures: a reading of poems by Mörike, Rilke and Benn." German Quarterly LIII.4
(November, 1980): 403-417.
- J. Rolleston. "Literature and Modern Histories." Duke University Letters 11
(September, 1980)
- J. Rolleston. "Nietzsche, Expressionism and Modern Poetics." Nietzsche-Studien 9
(1980): 285-301.
- J. Rolleston. "The Usable Future: Werfel’s Star of the Unborn as Exile Literature." Protest-Form-Tradition: Essays on German Exile Literature. Ed. Joseph P. Strelka, Robert F. Bell and Eugene Dobson. University of Alabama Press,
1979.
57-80.
- J. Rolleston. "Die Erzählungen” Das Frühwerk." Contributions to the Kafka-Handbuch. Ed. Hartmut Binder. 2Stuttgart: Kröner-Verlag,
1979.
242-262.
- J. Rolleston. "Die Romane: Ansätze der Frühzeit." Contributions to the Kafka-Handbuch. Ed. Hartmut Binder. 2Stuttgart: Kröner-Verlag,
1979.
402-7.
- J. Rolleston. "The New Positivism: Hartmut Binder’s Kafka in neuer Sicht." Newsletter of the Kafka Society of America II.3/4
(1978): 123-138.
- J. Rolleston. "Strategy and Language: Georg Bendemann’s Theater of the Self." The Problem of the Judgment. Ed. Angel Flores. New York: Gordian Press,
1977.
133-45. Reprinted from Kafka’s Narrative Theater
- J. Rolleston. "The Expressionist Moment: Heym, Trakl and the Problem of the Modern." Studies in Twentieth Century Literature 1.1
(Fall, 1976): 65-90.
- J. Rolleston. "Seven copyrighted lectures taped for the World Literature Series." Ed. Maynard Mack.
discussing the following works:
1. Kafka: The Trial
2. Kafka: The Castle
3. Kafka: Three Short Stories
4. Mann: Death in Venice and Tonio
Kröger
5. Mann: The Magic Mountain
6. Mann: Felix Krull
7. Remarque: All Quiet on the
Western Front
Book Reviews
- Raymond Furness. Zarathustra's Children: A Study of a Lost Generation of German Writers. 93.4 2001.
(Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000)
- Bruno Hillebrand. Nietzsche: Wie ihn die Dichter sahen. Monatshefte 93.2
(2001). (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2000)
- Rolf J. Goebel. Constructing China. Kafka’s Orientalist Discourse. Colloquia Germanica 32.1
(1999). (Columbia, S. C.: Camden House, 1997)
- Stanley Rosen. The Mask of Enlightenment: Nietzsche’s “Zarathustra”. Journal of English and Germanic Philology XCVII.3
(July, 1998).
- Paul Celan. Breathturn (Atemwende). Southern Humanities Review 31.4
(Fall, 1997). (translated and with an introduction by
Pierre Joris. Los Angeles: Sun and Moon
Press, 1995)
- Arnold Heidsieck. The Intellectual Contexts of Kafka’s Fiction: Philosophy, Law, Religion. Colloquia Germanica 28.2
(1995). (Columbia, S. C.: Camden House, 1994)
- Jan Rosiek. Figures of Failure: Paul de Man’s Criticism 1953-1970. Journal of English and Germanic Philology XCIII.4
(October, 1994). (Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press,
1992)
- Robert C. Holub. Crossing Borders: Reception Theory, Poststructuralism, Deconstruction. Journal of English and Germanic Philology XCIII.2
(April, 1994). (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1992)
- Kurt Fickert. End of a Mission: Kafka’s Search for Truth in His Last Stories. Colloquia Germanica 27.4
(1994). (Columbia, S. C.: Camden House, 1993)
- Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and Contra. ed. Clayton Koelb. Journal of English and Germanic Philology XCI.2
(April, 1992). (Albany: S.U.N.Y. Press, 1990)
- Alan D. Schrift. Nietzsche and the Question of Interpretation: Between Hermeneutics and Deconstruction. Rivista di Letterature moderne e comparate 45.3
(1992). (New York, London: Routledge, 1990)
- Roy Boyne. Foucault and Derrida: The Other Side of Reason. Contemporary Sociology 20.3
(May, 1991). (London, Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990)
- Nietzsche heute: Die Rezeption seines Werkes nach 1968. ed. Sigrid Bauschinger, Susan L. Cocalis and Sara Lennox. Journal of English and Germanic Philology LXXXIX.3
(July, 1990). (Bern, Stuttgart: Francke Verlag, 1988)
- Nietzsche: Literature and Values. ed. Volker Dürr, Reinhold Grimm and Kathy Harms. Journal of English and Germanic Philology LXXXIX.2
(April, 1990).
- Alice Kuzniar. Delayed Endings: Nonclosure in Novalis and Hölderlin. South Atlantic Review 53.2
(September, 1988). (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987)
- Philip Grundlehner. The Poetry of Friedrich Nietzsche. Journal of English and Germanic Philology LXXXVII.1988
(April, 1988). (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
1986)
- Rilke-translations by Joel Agee (Letters on Cézanne), Robert Firmage (Rodin) and Albert Ernest Flemming (Selected Poems). Southern Humanities Review XXI.2
(Spring, 1987).
- Werner Hoffmann. “Ansturm gegen die letzte irdische Grenze:” Aphorismen und Spätwerk Kafkas. Journal of English and Germanic Philology LXXXV.4
(October, 1986). (Bern, Munich: Francke Verlag, 1984)
- Joachim Unseld. Franz Kafka: Ein Schriftstellerleben. Die Geschichte seiner Veröffentlichungen. Modern Language Notes 101.3
(April, 1986). (Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1981)
- Charles L. Bernheimer. Flaubert and Kafka: Studies in Psychopoetic Structure. Journal of English and Germanic Philology LXXXIII.2
(April, 1984). (New Haven, London: Yale University Press,
1981)
- Britta Maché. Wandel und Sein. Rilkes Auseinandersetzung mit dem Phänomen der Verwandlung. Arbitrium
(1984). (Las Vegas: Peter Lang, 1981)
- Frank Lentricchia. After the New Criticism. South Atlantic Quarterly 81.1
(Winter, 1982). (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press,
1980)
- Theodore Ziolkowski. The Classical German Elegy 1795-1950. Modern Austrian Literature XV.2
(1982). (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980)
- Paul de Man. Allegories of Reading: Figural Language in Rousseau, Nietzsche, Rilke and Proust. Journal of English and Germanic Philology LXXX.1
(January, 1981). (New Haven, London: Yale University Press,
1979)
- William H. Rey. Poesie der Anti-Poesie: Moderne deutsche Lyrik: Genesis, Theorie, Struktur. German Quarterly LIII.2
(March, 1980). (Heidelberg: Lothar Stiehm Verlag, 1978)
- David A. White. Heidegger and the Language of Poetry. German Quarterly LIII.2
(March, 1980). (Lincoln, London: University of Nebraska
Press, 1978)
- Karl-Bernhard Bödeker. Frau und Familie im erzählerischen Werk Franz Kafkas. Modern Austrian Literature XII.1
(1979). (Bern: Herbert Lang, Frankfurt am Main:
Peter Lang, 1974)
- The Kafka Debate. ed. Angel Flores. German Quarterly LI.4
(November, 1978). (New York: Gordian Press, 1977)
- Käte Hamburger. Rilke: Eine Einführung. Journal of English and Germanic Philology LXXVII.4
(October, 1978).
- Klaus Weissenberger. Zwischen Stein und Stern: Mystische Formgebung in der Dichtung von Else Lasker-Schüler, Nelly Sachs und Paul Celan. German Quarterly L.3
(May, 1977). (Bern, Munich: Francke Verlag, 1976)
- Richard Sheppard. On Kafka’s Castle. German Quarterly XLIX.2
(March, 1976). (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1973)
- Stanley Corngold. The Commentator’s Despair: The Interpretation of Kafka’s “Metamorphosis”. Comparative Literature Studies XII.4
(December, 1975). (Port Washington, N. Y.: Kennikat Press, 1973)
- Richard Hamann and Jost Hermand. Epochen deutscher Kultur von 1870 bis zur Gegenwart. German Quarterly XLVIII.2
(March, 1975). (Volume I: Gründerzeit. Volume II:
Naturalismus. (Reprint Sammlung Dialog.).
Munich: Nymphenburger Vertragshandlung,
1971, 1972)
Translated Books
- Bernd Witte, trsl by James Rolleston. "Walter Benjamin: an Intellectual Biography." Wayne State University Press, 1991 Winner, American Literary Translation Association Award for 1991
Winner, 1993 German Literary Prize, American Translators Association
Translated Articles
- Elke Erb. "Fundamentally Grounded." Winter, 1997: 187-218.
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