Contents

pp v-vi

Acknowledgments

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-8

Part I - Philosophical and Literary Hermeneutics after the Holocaust

pp 9-10

1 - Tradition of Loss: Werner Kraft on Franz Kafka

pp 11-28

2 - A Brave New Word: Hannah Arendt's Postwar Reading of Kafka

pp 29-44

3 - Binding Words: Sarah Kofman, Maurice Blanchot, Franz Kafka, and the Holocaust

pp 45-56

4 - Kafka as the Exemplary Subject of Recent Dominant Critical Approaches

pp 57-76

Part II - Kafka in Israeli Cultural Space

pp 77-78

5 - Kafka and Brod after the Trial and Judgments in Israel

pp 79-97

6 - “A Nightingale Whose Tongue Was Chopped Off”: The Melancholic Writing Machine in Ya'acov Shṭeinberg's and Ḥezi Leskly's Poetry, after Kafka

pp 98-117

7 - Exiles in Their Own Lands: Kafka and Sayed Kashua

pp 118-140

Part III - Kafka from Modernism to Postmodernism

pp 141-142

8 - The Beetle and the Butterfly: Nabokov's Lecture on Kafka's The Metamorphosis

pp 143-154

9 - “When the Still Image Projected on the Screen Bursts into Movement”: Cinematic Space-Time in Kafka's “A Country Doctor”

pp 155-170

10 - After the Animal: Kafka, Monstrosity, and the Graphic Novel

pp 171-198

11 - Kafkas after Kafka: Anglophone Poetry and the Image of Kafka

pp 199-218

Notes on the Contributors

pp 219-222

Index

pp 223-231