Notes to Literature /

Notes to Literature / / 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 qualit...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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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

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