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

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.

Table of Contents

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 -- TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE -- EDITORIAL REMARKS FROM THE GERMAN EDITION -- 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