Seminarreihe ›Kafkas Echo‹: ›Adapting Kafka‹ (Pt. 1) – Theory: Project Development, Metadata, and Methodology

Ass. Prof. Verena Kick | Georgetown University
Prof. Dr. Carsten Strathausen | University of Missouri 

Adapting Kafka, a collaborative digital project by Carsten Strathausen (University of Missouri) and Verena Kick (Georgetown University), focuses on Franz Kafka’s novel The Trial (1925). Its many editions, translations, and adaptations that appeared in the last 100 years offer an opportunity for a quantitative and qualitative analysis in the digital realm that goes beyond a simple bibliographical collection. In building a database that catalogs the novel’s various transformations, we offer detailed information about these works, including excerpts, commentaries, and critical analyses. 

In our presentation, we will provide an overview of the project’s development, showcase the structure of the current prototype, and address how the extension of the standard metadata elements (based on Dublin Core) helps us define our dataset more precisely. This extension, called ›Kafka Core‹, reflects critical relations among editions, translations, and adaptations of The Trial.

This is the first of a two-part seminar on Adapting Kafka. The second part – Adapting Kafka – Praxis: Website, Sample Entries, Pedagogy – will take place in spring 2025.

Die Vortragssprache ist Englisch.

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Ein Kooperationsprojekt des Deutschen Literaturarchivs Marbach, der National Library of Israel und der Bodleian Library Oxford. Gefördert durch das Auswärtige Amt.