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Workshop w Michael Levine: 'After the Animal: Kafka, Monstrosity, and the Graphic Novel'

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Workshop with Michael Levine on 'After the Animal: Kafka, Monstrosity, and the Graphic Novel' Michael Levine is Professor in the German, Comparative Literature, and Jewish Studies programs at Rutgers University. His research, on 19th and 20th century German literature, literary theory, and intellectual history, focuses on four major areas: intersections among literary, philosophical and psychoanalytic discourses; Holocaust Studies and the poetics of witnessing; the changing structure of the literary, philosophical, and operatic work in the German nineteenth century; and the legal and political legacies of Nuremberg. He is the author of several books including 'The Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival' and, most recently, 'Weak Messianic Power: Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida and Celan.'
Date: 
Thursday, February 23, 2017
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