Kafka after Kafka

Dialogical Engagement with His Works from the Holocaust to Postmodernism

Mark H Gelber editor Iris Bruce editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published:8th Feb '19

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New essays providing an up-to-date picture of the engagement of artists, philosophers, and critics with Kafka's work. 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 knownartists and commentators with Kafka, and represents those who are well known, such as Arendt, Blanchot, Nabokov, and Coetzee, from new perspectives. The eleven 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 US or Europe (Ya'acov Shteinberg, Hezi Leskly, 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. Contributors: Iris Bruce, Stanley Corngold, AmirEngel, Mark H. Gelber, Sander L. Gilman, Caroline Jessen, Tali Latowicki, Michael G. Levine, Ido Lewit, Vivian Liska, Alana Sobelman. Iris Bruce is Associate Professor of German at McMaster University. Mark H. Gelber is Senior Professor and Director of the Center for Austrian and German Studies at Ben-Gurion University.

Kafka after Kafka contains eleven remarkably productive and thoughtful essays by a mix of well-known and younger Kafka scholars. . . . Like all the excellent volumes in this Camden House series, the book is carefully researched and well written, with detailed footnotes and an index. . . . The combination of close reading and cultural history in these pages makes the volume essential reading for Kafka scholars and . . . also valuable for teaching alongside the other companion volumes. -- Abigail Gillman * Journal of Austrian Studies *

ISBN: 9781571139818

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240 pages