Kata Gellen CV

Journal Article Germanic Review · January 1, 2024 Franz Kafka, intrigued by the possibility of representing movement in a still medium, made several drawings of galloping horses. This essay examines these drawings in the context of contemporaneous attempts to capture dynamic motion in visual media. Around ... Full text Cite

Martha’s Melancholia: Racial and Sexual Trauma in Gertrud Kolmar’s Die Jüdische Mutter (1931)

Journal Article Germanic Review · January 1, 2022 This essay offers an original reading of Gertrud Kolmar’s 1931 novel Die jüdische Mutter according to trauma and trauma theory. In so doing, it resolves two central puzzles at the heart of the novel: why the protagonist Martha Wolg poisons her sexually abu ... Full text Cite

The ethics of imagination in rainer maria rilke's die aufzeichnungen des malte laurids brigge

Journal Article German Studies Review · October 1, 2020 As an aesthetic faculty, imagination is subordinate to sense perception, especially seeing, in Rilke's novel Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge. However, imagination also proves crucial to the novel's articulation of an ethics of intersubjective a ... Full text Cite

Kata Gellen CV

Selected Publications

Imprints in the cosmic background radiation: Franz Kafka and the multiverse

Kafka in Motion

Martha’s Melancholia: Racial and Sexual Trauma in Gertrud Kolmar’s Die Jüdische Mutter (1931)

The ethics of imagination in rainer maria rilke's die aufzeichnungen des malte laurids brigge

Writing Failure: Geoff Dyer, Thomas Bernhard, and the Inability to Begin

Review of Kafka und Prag. Literatur-, kultur-, sozial- und sprachhistorische Kontexte

Review of Kafka's Jewish Languages: The Hidden Openness of Tradition

Hearing spaces: Architecture and acoustic experience in modernist German literature

Review of Die zweite Stimme. Vortragskunst von Goethe bis Kafka

Review of Der Überlebende und sein Doppel. Kulturwissenschaftliche Analysen zum Werk Elias Canettis