Kafka after Kafka: Dialogical Engagement with His Works from the Holocaust to Postmodernism: 195 (Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture, 195) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 1571139818 ISBN 13: 9781571139818

Publisher: Camden House, 2019

Synopsis

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 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.

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About the Author:

Contributors: Iris Bruce, Stanley Corngold, Amir Engel, 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Camden House
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1571139818
• ISBN 13: 9781571139818
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Bruce Iris, Gelber Mark H.