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Passing by the Brothel. On the Cultural Techniques of Collective Experience and Brod's/Kafka's Experimental Travelogue Richard und Samuel
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SYSNO ASEP 0618000 Document Type A - Abstract R&D Document Type The record was not marked in the RIV R&D Document Type Není vybrán druh dokumentu Title Passing by the Brothel. On the Cultural Techniques of Collective Experience and Brod's/Kafka's Experimental Travelogue Richard und Samuel Author(s) Müller, Richard (UCL-M) RID, SAI, ORCID Action Central-European Masculinities in a Comparative Perspective /2./ Event date 14.11.2024 - 15.11.2024 VEvent location Katowice Country PL - Poland Event type EUR Language eng - English Keywords Kafka, Franz ; Brod, Max ; collective male experience ; male friendship Subject RIV AJ - Letters, Mass-media, Audiovision OECD category Specific literatures Institutional support UCL-M - RVO:68378068 Annotation The presentation was focused on the cultural techniques of collective male experience through case study of the “Prague circle” and Brod’s and Kafka’s unfinished novel Richard und Samuel. Examining the close and intimate male friendship in both authors’ writings, the speaker doubted the thesis of homosexual repression. Instead, he argued, Kafka developed the ‘posthuman approach to the self’ within an understanding of writing as an existential activity, working from within the vulnerable position of the “male Jewish writer” and in response to the contemporary discourse on Jewish effiminacy and lack of (socially constructive) virility (Weininger, Blüher). Workplace Institute of Czech Literature Contact Pavla Hartmanová, hartmanova@ucl.cas.cz ; Veronika Zemanová, zemanova@ucl.cas.cz, asep@ucl.cas.cz, Tel.: 222 828 135 Year of Publishing 2025
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