Topic:
KAFKA, BRECHT AND LABOR
Kafka’s Amtliche Schriften (“Professional Prose”) 2004, and Brecht’s Theories

500 word abstracts are invited by MARCH 20, 2008 about:
A. Kafka’s role as a premier practitioner of labor insurance in Central Europe
B. Kafka’s influence on Brecht’s works and theories about labor
All aspects are welcome.

Among the many valuable scholarly submissions for the best essay prize, the Committee selected two outstanding essays and split the prize money of USD $2,000.00 between the two authors:

Keith Leslie Johnson, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
Kafka: Toward an Ethic of the Creaturely

Sorin Radu Cucu, SUNY, Buffalo, NY
The Fantasy of the Invisible Master or the “Unnamable” in Kafka’s The Trial

The prize was sponsored by Franz Muster, Panoramic Windows and Doors, with the assistance of Dr. Brigitta Blaha, Austrian Consul General in New York City and members of the Executive Committee of the Kafka Society of America*. The winning essays were selected by a panel of experts.

*Kafka Executive Committee Sponsors: Stanley Corngold, Rolf J. Goebel, Clayton Koelb, Elizabeth Rajeck, Judith Ryan, Henry S. Sussman, Ruth Gross.

Kafka Society Members and Other Private Sponsors: Jennifer Geddes, Michael G. Levine, Breon Mitchell, Mark Harman, John Pizer, John Zilcosky, Marjorie Rhine.

We congratulate the winners and wish them a successful further career and thank again the sponsors of this prize.

Papers can be submitted in either English or German. We would like to ask our contributing scholars to prepare and edit their papers with the utmost care to avoid the burden of prolonged editing. We ask for this professional courtesy in order to minimize, wherever possible, editorial work. Please, follow the most recent MLA style manual; “Endnotes” (Notes) and Works Cited are required. Also, consult recent numbers of the PMLA or our Journal. We ask you in particular to double-check all endnotes, quotations and citations for accuracy. We also urge you to make use of collegial editorial help, which always proves invaluable.

When sending your article, make sure to include a cover letter which includes your complete work and home address, phone, fax and email information. Save your document to a PC-formatted CD as a Microsoft Word 97-compatible file. In addition, print out two hard copies of your document and check that both correspond.

Please mail these materials to:
Marie Luise Caputo-Mayr
160 East 65th St., # 2C
New York, NY 10065
Email: mlcaputo@kafkasocietyofamerica.org or mlcaputomayr@hotmail.com

In order to reduce our mailing costs and speed up the editing process, please send one additional hard copy to each of the following: Judith Ryan, German Department, Barker Center, 12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138 (jryan@fas.harvard.edu); Julius M. Herz, 3795 Route 212, Riegelsville, PA 18077 (aph1@lehigh.edu); Elizabeth Rajec, 500 East 77th St., New York, NY, 10075 (erajec@yahoo.com); Henry Sussman, Department of English, SUNY, Buffalo, NY 14222 (henry.sussman@yale.edu); and Iris Bruce, Department of Modern and Classical Languages, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada, L8S 4M2 (iris.bruce@mcmaster.ca).

You may send your article by e-mail attachment to all of the editors, IN ADDITION TO THE MAILING (the email addresses are provided above). Some journals charge their contributors for excessive editing of their submitted papers. Our preferred approach is to provide these simple and straightforward instructions, which will significantly streamline the submission process. We thank you in advance for your cooperation in this matter.