Dennis McCortAs a careerlong professor of German at Syracuse University, Dennis McCort specialized in German Romanticism, 19thcentury German fiction, religion and/in literature and Franz Kafka. Much of his research focuses on common ground among these: e.g., his ook, Going beyond the Pairs, a study of Romanticism, Zen Buddhism and deconstruction, is not only a study of East West comparative literature and religion but considers the work of Franz Kafka as well. His articles have included such topics as the influence of Rilke and Zen on J. D. Salinger, the Zen style and spirit of Kafka's short fiction and the representation of madness in the fiction of E.T.A. Hoffmann. In 2017 he published A KAFKAESQUE MEMOIR with PalmArtPress, a personal narrative tracing the shaping influence of the mind and personality of Franz Kafka on a nineyearlong Jungian analysis he had undergone. Read More Read Less