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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784866103321

Titolo

Adorno and literature [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David Cunningham and Nigel Mapp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2006

ISBN

1-281-29511-6

9786611295110

1-84714-183-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (216 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CunninghamDavid

MappNigel

Disciplina

801/.95092

Soggetti

Literature, Modern - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I: Philosophy, Aesthetics and Literature; 1. Literature and the Modern System of the Arts: Sources of Criticism in Adorno; 2. Adorno's Critical Presence: Cultural Theory and Literary Value; 3. Interpretation and Truth: Adorno on Literature and Music; 4. Adorno and the Poetics of Genre; Part II: Poetry and Poetics; 5. Lyric Poetry Before Auschwitz; 6. The Truth in Verse? Adorno, Wordsworth, Prosody; 7. Lyric's Expression: Musicality, Conceptuality, Critical Agency

8. Returning to the 'House of Oblivion': Celan Between Adorno and HeideggerPart III: Modernity, Drama and the Novel; 9. Forgetting - Faust: Adorno and Kommerell; 10. Adorno's Aesthetic Theory and Lukács's Theory of the Novel; 11. No Nature, No Nothing: Adorno, Beckett, Disenchantment; 12. Late Style in Naipaul: Adorno's Aesthetics and the Post-Colonial Novel; 13. After Adorno: The Narrator of the Contemporary European Novel; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; R; S; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Despite the recent upsurge of interest in Theodor Adorno's work, his literary writings are generally under-represented. However, literature is a central element in his aesthetic theory. Bringing together original essays from a distinguished international group of contributors, this



book offers a wide ranging account of the literary components of Adorno's thinking. It is divided into three sections, dealing with the concept of literature, with poetry, and with modernity and the novel respectively. At the same time, the book provides a clear sense of the unique qualities of Adorno's philosophy o