Kafka after Kafka – Dialogical Engagement with His Works from the Holocaust to Postmodernism: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Iris Bruce, Mark H. Gelber

Introduction - Iris Bruce and Mark H. Gelber PART 1. PHILOSOPHICAL AND LITERARY HERMENEUTICS AFTER THE HOLOCAUST Tradition of Loss: Werner Kraft on Franz Kafka - Caroline Jessen A Brave New World: Hannah Arendt's Postwar Reading of Kafka - Amir Engel Binding Words: Sarah Kofman, Maurice Blanchot, Franz Kafka, and the Holocaust - Alana Sobelman Kafka as the Exemplary Subject of Recent Dominant Critical Approaches - Stanley Corngold PART 2. KAFKA IN ISRAELI CULTURAL SPACE Kafka 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 Latowicki Exiles in Their Own Lands: Kafka and Sayed Kashua - Iris Bruce PART 3. KAFKA FROM MODERNISM TO POSTMODERNISM The 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 Lewit After the Animal: Kafka, Monstrosity, and the Graphic Novel - Michael G. Levine Kafkas after Kafka: Anglophone Poetry and the Image of Kafka - Sander L. Gilman Notes on the Contributors