Meindert Peters

This podcast discusses how thinking about movement in the story and the ballet offer insights into Gregor Samsa's transformation and what it is to be human.

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Department: Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages

Date Added: 03/06/2024

Duration: 00:21:53

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Kafka and Humour

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Award-winning comedian David Baddiel discusses the kinds of humour that operate in Kafka and how laughter and nightmare are often closer than you think

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Department: Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages

Date Added: 03/06/2024

Duration: 00:18:08

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Kafka and Comics

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Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" has been translated into many languages and forms. This podcast explores Peter Kuper's graphic novel.

Remembering Kafka's famous interdiction on illustrating the insect, we ask what is revealed when one turns Kafka's most famous story into a comic.

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Department: Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages

Date Added: 03/06/2024

Duration: 00:20:03

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Kafka and Race

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The transformation that takes place in "The Metamorphosis" has been referenced in any number of recent works by writers that explore issues of race, otherness and power.

This discussion asks why contemporary writers turn to Kafka to deal with a post-colonial legacy and focuses especially on French-Senegalese wrier Marie NDiyae.

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Department: Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages

Date Added: 03/06/2024

Duration: 00:20:47

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Kafka and Ecology

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Although Kafka does not treat environmental issues directly, his work has much to say about time, scale, uncertainty, inside and out and ecology in a broader sense, along our own position in a fragile world.

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Department: Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages

Date Added: 03/06/2024

Duration: 00:21:33

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Kafka and Illness

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Using Kafka's "The Metamorphosis" as a starting point, this memoir of MS examines a range of lives and works to think through how illness challenges identity and how literature can help find a way through.

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Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

Karen Leeder

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metamorphosis: a life in pieces

Department: Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages

Date Added: 03/06/2024

Duration: 00:16:55

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The Brazilian Kafka: Clarice Lispector

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Dubbed "the Brazilian Kafka", the writer Clarice Lispector wrote an experimental text that seems to echo the "Metamorphosis" in a number of ways.

This podcast explores the links between Kafka's story and this radical, exploratory, feminine version and what it tells us also about Kafka's original.