Adorno and literature

Cunningham, David. (Added Author). Mapp, Nigel. (Added Author).

Summary: Despite the recent upsurge of interest in Theodor Adorno's work, his literary writings remain generally neglected. Yet literature is a central element in his aesthetic theory. Building on the current emergent interest in modern philosophical aesthetics, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the literary components of Adorno's thinking. Bringing together original essays from a distinguished international group of contributors, it offers the reader a user-friendly path through the major areas of Adorno's work in this area. It is divided into three sections, dealing with the concept of literature, with poetry and poetics, and with modernity, drama and the novel respectively. At the same time, the book provides a clear sense of the unique qualities of Adorno's philosophy of literature by critically relating his work to a number of other influential theorists and theories including contemporary postmodernist thought and cultural studies.

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ISBN: 9781281295118
ISBN: 1281295116
ISBN: 0826487521
ISBN: 9780826487520
ISBN: 0826487521
ISBN: 1847141838 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9781847141835 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 203 p.)
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Publisher: London ; New York : Continuum, c2006.

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General Note:	Multi-User. CatBulkString:sept.20.12
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover -- TOC36;Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I58; Philosophy44; Aesthetics and Literature -- CH36;146; Literature and the Modern System of the Arts58; Sources of Criticism in Adorno -- CH36;246; Adorno39;s Critical Presence58; Cultural Theory and Literary Value -- CH36;346; Interpretation and Truth58; Adorno on Literature and Music -- CH36;446; Adorno and the Poetics of Genre -- Part II58; Poetry and Poetics -- CH36;546; Lyric Poetry Before Auschwitz -- CH36;646; The Truth in Verse63; Adorno44; Wordsworth44; Prosody -- CH36;746; Lyric39;s Expression58; Musicality44; Conceptuality44; Critical Agency -- CH36;846; Returning to the 39;House of Oblivion39;58; Celan Between Adorno and Heidegger -- Part III58; Modernity44; Drama and the Novel -- CH36;946; Forgetting Faust58; Adorno and Kommerell -- CH36;1046; Adorno39;s Aesthetic Theory and Luk225;cs39;s Theory of the Novel -- CH36;1146; No Nature44; No Nothing58; Adorno44; Beckett44; Disenchantment -- CH36;1246; Late Style in Naipaul58; Adorno39;s Aesthetics and the Post45;Colonial Novel -- CH36;1346; After Adorno58; The Narrator of the Contemporary European Novel -- IDX36;Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- V -- W -- Z -- Last Page.
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