...Brendan Moran In his writings on Franz Kafka, Benjamin develops a conception of study. The conception of study pertains to an exercise that Benjamin observes in some characters from Kafka’s novels and stories. Benjamin also suggests that this exercise of study is enacted by Kafka’s works themselves...

..., including his writings on radio, film, children’s literature, and children’s theater, as well as his studies of Franz Kafka and Bertolt Brecht. The introduction provides brief summaries of the ten articles comprising the dossier and their relation to one another, and it addresses the question...

.... East Central Europe, for him, is the ever-shifting terrain of struggle over and for Europeanness and, at the same time, a place where ruins are still uncertain and thus full of creative potentiality. Andrukhovych’s own influences, which include Franz Kafka, magical realism, and the Polish O’Harists...

... Train to Memphis, 269. 11. Franz Kafka, ‘‘Investigations of a Dog in The Complete Stories, ed. Nahum N. Glatzer (New York: Schocken Books, 1971), 282, 285. 12. I am happy to find support for the interpretation of the song...

... very literally as thought analysis. References Kafka, Franz. 2002a. Aphorismen- Zettelkonvolut / Frühjahr 1918, mit acht Zusätzen aus dem 2. Halbjahr 1920. In Kritische Ausgabe: Nachgelassene Schriften und Fragmente II, edited by Jost Schillemeit, 113 40. Frankfurt/Main: Fischer Verlag. 2002b...

... to translate into the kind of autonomy they were concerned with (an idea that runs from Baudelaire and Gustave Flaubert to Franz Kafka and John Dos Passos Marshall Berman similarly refers to the historical experi- ence of modernity as a “dialectics of modernism and modernization the latter...

... Caribbean. A John Hope Franklin Center Book. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2005. Gilman, Sander L. Franz Kafka. Critical Lives. London: Reaktion Books, 2005. Grewal, Inderpal. Transnational America: Feminisms, Diasporas, Neoliberalisms. Next Wave: New Directions in Women’s Studies. Durham, N.C...

.... Modern Language Association of America Options for Teaching. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2008. Connor, Steven. The Book of Skin. Reaktion Books. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. Corngold, Stanley, Jack Greenberg, and Benno Wagner, eds. Franz Kafka...

..., Language, Thought . Translated by Hofstadter Albert . New York : HarperCollins . Horkheimer Max Adorno Theodor W. . (1944) 2002 . Dialectic of Enlightenment . Translated by Jephcott Edmund . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . Kafka Franz . 1991 . The Blue...

....” In a similar vein, although with different literary means, Franz Kafka ([1919] 2011) described, in his short story called In the Penal Colony , how the bodies of inmates were used as a surface on which to inscribe the law, an idea taken up later by the French anthropologist Pierre Clastres ( 1989 : 188...

... / November 2016 from being foreign to Benjamin, seems to be one of the central themes of his own writings, be they on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Marcel Proust, Franz Kafka, or Charles Baudelaire. The biography is devoted to the life of a person for whom writing has occupied the highest place...

... composites, like the hat that Charles Bovary is fated to wear into his new classroom at the outset of the novel named after his spouse who is so imprudent in her collusion with her drives, or like Franz Kafka’s Odradek.2...

... not hear it, you do not notice it. Why should you? You too, carve a knife. You too, follow a coffin. You too, break into song. (55) Sketches such as these support Joris's claim in the preface that “had he been able to work more in prose, he would have become an equal to and successor of Franz Kafka...

... of the Romantic lyric but in the ascetic modernism of writers like Franz Kafka and Samuel Beckett. In works like these, Adorno claims, the meaninglessness of contemporary life becomes palpable. Adorno reads Beckett’s Endgame, for instance, as both a demon- stration of the emptiness of the rituals...

... (at least potentially) from the “well-oiled­ tracks” that other- wise lead all students to the same outcome—the incorporation into what he will soon come to call myth. Such a view links “The Life of Students” to another later writ- ing, “Franz Kafka: On the Tenth Anniversary of His Death” (1934...

... calls also, with reference to Franz Kafka, “tradition falling ill” (1994: 565), the absence of the continuity of a living tradition, we risk remaining uneducated in relation to our true needs. It is as though, once the extent of the destruction of traditional forms of experience in modernity...

... of erasure not because the references are often unacknowledged but because they disappear into the monotonous fabric of his texts. Shorn of quotation marks, rendered in Sebald sound, Franz Kafka resembles Jorge Luis Borges, Borges resembles Alain Robbe- Grillet, Robbe- Grillet resembles Bernhard, a blurring...

... a similar status within Levinasian discussion of the nature of evil, as do Franz Kafka’s The Trial and “Before the Law” within debates (of quite differ- ent philosophical origin) about the nature of juridical power. Existentialism—arguably the paradigmatic case of a modern philosophical tradition...

... Steingärten, Erinnerung als eine Form des Vergessens. Frank- furter Rundschau, February 6, 1971. 1972. Review of Johann Bauer and Isidor Pollak, Kafka und Prag. Literatur & Kritik 66 67: 421 22. 1973a. Review of Franz Hubmann, Dream of Empire: The World of Ger- many in Original Photographs, 1840 1914...

... the translator con- sults a dictionary on every word (indeed, dictionaries can proliferate the possibilities). Witness the history of Bible translation or the retranslations of the great modernist writers, Franz Kafka and Marcel Proust, Thomas Mann and Italo Svevo. To erect one interpretation over others...