Notes to Literature / / Theodor W. Adorno.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Adorno, Theodor W.,
• MitwirkendeR: Kottman, Paul A.,; Nicholsen, Shierry Weber,; Tiedemann, Rolf,
• TeilnehmendeR: Kottman, Paul.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION TO THE COMBINED EDITION --; VOLUME ONE --; TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE --; EDITORIAL REMARKS FROM THE GERMAN EDITION --; PART I --; 1. The Essay as Form --; 2. On Epic Naiveté --; 3. The Position of the Narrator in the Contemporary Novel --; 4. On Lyric Poetry and Society --; 5. In Memory of Eichendorff --; 6. Heine the Wound --; 7. Looking Back on Surrealism --; 8. Punctuation Marks --; 9. The Artist as Deputy --; PART II --; 10. On the Final Scene of Faust --; 11. Reading Balzac --; 12. Valéry's Deviations --; 13. Short Commentaries on Proust --; 14. Words from Abroad --; 15. Ernst Bloch's Spuren --; 16. Extorted Reconciliation: On Georg Lukács' Realism in Our Time --; 17. Trying to Understand Endgame --; VOLUME TWO --; PART III --; 18. Titles: Paraphrases on Lessing --; 19. Toward a Portrait of Thomas Mann --; 20. Bibliographical Musings --; 21. On an Imaginary Feuilleton --; 22. Morals and Criminality: On the Eleventh Volume of the Works of Karl Kraus --; 23. The Curious Realist: On Siegfried Kracauer --; 24. Commitment --; 25. Presuppositions: On the Occasion of a Reading by Hans G. Helms --; 26. Parataxis: On Hölderlin's Late Poetry --; PART IV --; 27. On the Classicism of Goethe's Iphigenie --; 28. On Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop: A Lecture --; 29. Stefan George --; 30. Charmed Language: On the Poetry of Rudolf Borchardt --; 31. The Handle, the Pot, and Early Experience: Ui, haww' ich gesacht --; 32. Introduction to Benjamin's Schriften --; 33. Benjamin the Letter Writer --; 34. An Open Letter to Rolf Hochhuth --; 35. Is Art Lighthearted? --; NOTES --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780231550291; 9783110651959; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610550; 9783110606423
• DOI: 10.7312/ador17964
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Theodor W. Adorno.

Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno's essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Holderlin, Siegfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin, and Stefan George. It also includes his reflections on a variety of subjects, such as literary titles, the physical qualities of books, political commitment in literature, the light-hearted and the serious in art, and the use of foreign words in writing. This edition presents this classic work in full in a single volume, with a new introduction by Paul Kottman.