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Publications of James L. Rolleston    :recent first  alphabetical  combined  bibtex listing:

Books

  1. J. Rolleston. Rilke in Transition: An Exploration of His Earliest Poetry.  Yale University Press, 1970.
  2. J. Rolleston. Kafka's Narrative Theater.  Pennsylvania State University Press, 1974.
  3. J. Rolleston. Naratives of Ecstasy: Romantic Temporality in Modern German Poetry.  Wayne State University Press, 1987.

Edited Volumes

  1. J. Rolleston. Twentieth Century Interpretations of The Trial. Prentice-Hall, 1976 ().
  2. J. Rolleston. Contemporary German Poetry. Studies in Twentieth Century Literature (special issue) vol. 21 no. 1, Winter, 1997 (). (with introduction)
  3. J. Rolleston. A Companion to the Works of Franz Kafka. Camden House, 2002 ().

Articles in a Collection

  1. J. Rolleston. "Seven copyrighted lectures taped for the World Literature Series."  Ed. Maynard Mack. 1974-75. (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)
  2. J. Rolleston. "The Expressionist Moment: Heym, Trakl and the Problem of the Modern." . Fall, 1976, 65-90.
  3. 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)
  4. J. Rolleston. "The New Positivism: Hartmut Binder’s Kafka in neuer Sicht." . 1978, 123-138.
  5. 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.
  6. J. Rolleston. "Die Erzählungen” Das Frühwerk." Contributions to the Kafka-Handbuch Ed. Hartmut Binder. Stuttgart: Kröner-Verlag, 1979, 242-262.
  7. J. Rolleston. "Die Romane: Ansätze der Frühzeit." Contributions to the Kafka-Handbuch Ed. Hartmut Binder. Stuttgart: Kröner-Verlag, 1979, 402-7.
  8. J. Rolleston. "Nietzsche, Expressionism and Modern Poetics." . 1980, 285-301.
  9. J. Rolleston. "Literature and Modern Histories." . September, 1980.
  10. J. Rolleston. "Time Structures: a reading of poems by Mörike, Rilke and Benn." . November, 1980, 403-417.
  11. 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.
  12.  "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.
  13. J. Rolleston. "Betrachtung: Landschaften der Doppelgänger." Der junge Kafka Ed. Gerhard Kurz. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1984, 184-199.
  14. 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.
  15. 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)
  16. J. Rolleston. "Kafka-Criticism: A Typological Perspective in the Centenary Year." Kafka’s Contextuality Ed. Alan Udoff. The Gordian Press, 1986, 1-32.
  17.  "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)
  18. J. Rolleston. "Books Say More Than Their Writers Dream of (Editor’s title of essay on contemporary literary theories)." . August 30, 1987.
  19. J. Rolleston. "Rainer Maria Rilke." Modern European Writers. monograph seriesNew York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1989, 767-795.
  20. J. Rolleston. "The Politics of Quotation: Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project." . January, 1989, 13-27.
  21. 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.
  22. J. Rolleston. "Modernism and Repetition: Kafka’s Literary Technologies." . Twelfth Year1990, 59-63.
  23. J. Rolleston. "The Legacy of Idealism: Schiller, Mörike and Biedermeier Culture." . December, 1990, 491-512.
  24. J. Rolleston (part author). "Dialect Poetry." The New Princeton Encyclopedia. , 288-290.
  25. 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.
  26. with Rosalind A. Coleman. "Anatomy Lessons: The Destiny of a Textbook 1971-72." . January, 1991, 153-173.
  27. J. Rolleston. "The Uses of the Frankfurt School: New Stories on the left." . Winter, 1991, 87-100.
  28. 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.
  29. 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.
  30. 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.
  31. 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.
  32. 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.
  33. J. Rolleston. "The Truth of Unemployment: Walter Benjamin reads his own times." . Spring, 1996, 27-49.
  34. J. Rolleston. "Modernism and Metamorphosis: Karin Kiwus’ Das Chinesische Examen." . Winter, 1997, 111-122.
  35. J. Rolleston. "Intervention on Interdisciplinary Studies." University in Transition Ed. Detlef Müller-Böling et al. Gütersloh: Bertelsmann Foundation, 1998, 203-206.
  36. J. Rolleston. "After Zero Hour: The Visual Texts of Post-War Germany." . Spring, 1999, 1-19.
  37. J. Rolleston. "German Stories." . Winter, 2000, 35-38.
  38. 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.
  39. 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.
  40. J. Rolleston. "Heute, 1948: Photojournalism Frames the German Present." . forthcoming.

Translated Books

  1. 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

  1. Elke Erb. "Fundamentally Grounded."  Winter, 1997: 187-218.

Book Reviews

  1. 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)
  2. 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)
  3. Richard Sheppard, On Kafka’s Castle. German Quarterly XLIX:2 (March, 1976). (New York: Barnes and Noble, 1973)
  4. 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)
  5. Käte Hamburger, Rilke: Eine Einführung. Journal of English and Germanic Philology LXXVII:4 (October, 1978).
  6.  The Kafka Debate. German Quarterly LI:4 (November, 1978). (New York: Gordian Press, 1977)
  7. 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)
  8. William H. Rey, Poesie der Anti-Poesie: Moderne deutsche Lyrik: Genesis, Theorie, Struktur. German Quarterly LIII:2 (March, 1980). (Heidelberg: Lothar Stiehm Verlag, 1978)
  9. David A. White, Heidegger and the Language of Poetry. German Quarterly LIII:2 (March, 1980). (Lincoln, London: University of Nebraska Press, 1978)
  10. 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)
  11. Theodore Ziolkowski, The Classical German Elegy 1795-1950. Modern Austrian Literature XV:2 (1982). (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1980)
  12. Frank Lentricchia, After the New Criticism. South Atlantic Quarterly 81:1 (Winter, 1982). (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1980)
  13. Britta Maché, Wandel und Sein. Rilkes Auseinandersetzung mit dem Phänomen der Verwandlung. Arbitrium  (1984). (Las Vegas: Peter Lang, 1981)
  14. 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)
  15. Joachim Unseld, Franz Kafka: Ein Schriftstellerleben. Die Geschichte seiner Veröffentlichungen. Modern Language Notes 101:3 (April, 1986). (Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1981)
  16. 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)
  17.  Rilke-translations by Joel Agee (Letters on Cézanne), Robert Firmage (Rodin) and Albert Ernest Flemming (Selected Poems). Southern Humanities Review XXI:2 (Spring, 1987).
  18. Philip Grundlehner, The Poetry of Friedrich Nietzsche. Journal of English and Germanic Philology LXXXVII:1988 (April, 1988). (New York, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986)
  19. Alice Kuzniar, Delayed Endings: Nonclosure in Novalis and Hölderlin. South Atlantic Review 53:2 (September, 1988). (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1987)
  20.  Nietzsche: Literature and Values. Journal of English and Germanic Philology LXXXIX:2 (April, 1990).
  21.  Nietzsche heute: Die Rezeption seines Werkes nach 1968. Journal of English and Germanic Philology LXXXIX:3 (July, 1990). (Bern, Stuttgart: Francke Verlag, 1988)
  22. Roy Boyne, Foucault and Derrida: The Other Side of Reason. Contemporary Sociology 20:3 (May, 1991). (London, Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990)
  23. 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)
  24.  Nietzsche as Postmodernist: Essays Pro and Contra. Journal of English and Germanic Philology XCI:2 (April, 1992). (Albany: S.U.N.Y. Press, 1990)
  25. 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)
  26. 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)
  27. 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)
  28. Arnold Heidsieck, The Intellectual Contexts of Kafka’s Fiction: Philosophy, Law, Religion. Colloquia Germanica 28:2 (1995). (Columbia, S. C.: Camden House, 1994)
  29. 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)
  30. Stanley Rosen, The Mask of Enlightenment: Nietzsche’s “Zarathustra”. Journal of English and Germanic Philology XCVII:3 (July, 1998).
  31. Rolf J. Goebel, Constructing China. Kafka’s Orientalist Discourse. Colloquia Germanica 32:1 (1999). (Columbia, S. C.: Camden House, 1997)
  32. Raymond Furness, Zarathustra's Children: A Study of a Lost Generation of German Writers.  93:4 (2001). (Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000)
  33. Bruno Hillebrand, Nietzsche: Wie ihn die Dichter sahen. Monatshefte 93:2 (2001). (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, 2000)
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