Kafka After Kafka

Iris Bruce, Mark H. Gelber

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. Gelberis Senior Professor and Director of the Center for Austrian and German Studies at Ben-Gurion University.

Introduction - Iris Bruce and Mark H. GelberPART 1. PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY HERMENEUTICS AFTER THE HOLOCAUSTTradition of Loss: Werner Kraft on Franz Kafka - Caroline JessenA Brave New World: Hannah Arendt's Postwar Reading of Kafka - Amir EngelBinding Words: Sarah Kofman, Maurice Blanchot, Franz Kafka, and the Holocaust - Alana SobelmanKafka as the Exemplary Subject of Recent Dominant Critical Approaches - Stanley CorngoldPART 2. KAFKA IN ISRAELI CULTURAL SPACEKafka and Brod after the Trial and Judgments in Israel - Mark H. Gelber"A Nightingale whose Tongue was Chopped": The Melancholic Writing Machine in Jacob Steinberg's and Hezi Leskly's Poetry, after Kafka - Tali LatowickiExiles in Their Own Lands: Kafka and Sayed Kashua - Iris BrucePART 3. KAFKA FROM MODERNISM TO POSTMODERNISMThe Beetle and the Butterfly: Nabokov's Lecture on Kafka's The Metamorphosis - Vivian Liska"When the Still Image Projected on the Screen Bursts into Movement": Cinematic Space-Time in Kafka's "A Country Doctor" - Ido LewitAfter the Animal: Kafka, Monstrosity, and the Graphic Novel - Michael G. LevineKafkas after Kafka: Anglophone Poetry and the Image of Kafka - Sander L. GilmanNotes on the Contributors