The topic of "Kafka after Kafka" is a fascinating one: the engagement of artists, philosophers, and critics in dialogical exchange with Kafka's works. The present collection of new essays highlights the engagement of lesser known artists and commentators with Kafka, and represents those who are well known, such as Arendt, Blanchot, Nabokov, and Coetzee, from new perspectives. The fourteen essays contained here represent the most recent scholarly engagements with this topic. An essay on major trends in current Kafka criticism provides background for several essays on novelists, philosophers, and critics whose relationship to Kafka is not very well known. A section devoted to Kafka from an Israeli perspective includes artists not commonly known in the U.S. or Europe (Etgar Keret, Sayed Kashua), as well as an essay on the recent trial in Israel regarding the fate of Kafka's literary legacy. A final section addresses important contemporary approaches to Kafka in film studies, animal studies, the graphic novel, and in postmodern culture and counterculture.
Author(s): Iris Bruce, Mark H. Gelber
Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture
Publisher: Camden House/Boydell & Brewer
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 242
Tags: Kafka, Dialogical Engagement, Postmodernism, Counterculture
Frontcover......Page 1
Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Part I. Philosophical and Literary
Hermeneutics after the Holocaust......Page 18
1: Tradition of Loss: Werner Kraft on Franz Kafka......Page 20
2: A Brave New Word: Hannah Arendt’s Postwar Reading
of Kafk......Page 38
3: Binding Words: Sarah Kofman, Maurice Blanchot,
Franz Kafka, and the Holocaust......Page 54
4: Kafka as the Exemplary Subject of Recent Dominant
Critical Approaches......Page 66
Part II. Kafka in Israeli Cultural Space......Page 86
5: Kafka and Brod after the Trial and Judgments in Israel......Page 88
6: “A Nightingale Whose Tongue Was Chopped Off”: The
Melancholic Writing Machine in Ya’acov Shṭeinberg’s and
Ḥezi Leskly’s Poetry, after Kafka......Page 107
7: Exiles in Their Own Lands: Kafka and Sayed Kashua......Page 127
Part III. Kafka from Modernism to Postmodernism......Page 150
8: The Beetle and the Butterfly: Nabokov’s Lecture on Kafka’s
The Metamorphosis......Page 152
9: “When the Still Image Projected on the Screen Bursts
into Movement”: Cinematic Space-Time in Kafka’s
“A Country Doctor”......Page 164
10: After the Animal: Kafka, Monstrosity, and the Graphic Novel......Page 180
11: Kafkas after Kafka: Anglophone Poetry and the
Image of Kafka......Page 208
Notes on the Contributors......Page 228
Index......Page 232
