A brilliant collection of short essays on literary subjects e.g. Beckett, Balzac, Proust, Thomas Mann, Dickens, Goethe, Heine, the lyric, realism, the essay, and the contemporary novel by the great social theorist (1903-1969), originally published in 1958 as Noten zur literature (Suhrkamp Verlag, F
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These 17 essays by an important European critic of the Frankfurt school deal with a broad range of topics: the essay form, the epic, the narrator in the contemporary novel, lyric poetry and society, surrealism, Beckett's Endgame , and various European authors (Balzac, Goethe, Proust, Valery, Bloch, Heine, etc.). The essays are generally pitched at a rather high level of abstraction and with a Marxist philosophical slant: the response of literature and individual artists to alienation in an industrial/capitalist society is a recurring concern. Though this is primarily a book for specialists and academic libraries, Adorno's thought and highly suggestive remarks are well worth the effort.
- Richard Kuczkowski, Dominican Coll., Blauvelt, N.Y.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Richard Kuczkowski, Dominican Coll., Blauvelt, N.Y.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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"Adorno's Notes to Literature, which begins with the high leap of his great essay 'The Essay as Form,' sets an inimitable, always exhilarating standard. A volume of Adorno's essays is equivalent to a whole shelf of books on literature." -- Susan Sontag
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That in Germany the essay is condemned as a hybrid, that the form has no compelling tradition, that its emphatic demands are met only intermittently-all this has been said, and censured, often enough. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Karl Kraus, German Romanticism, Neue Sachlichkeit, Thomas Mann, European Weltschmerz, Stefan George, Wanderers Nachtlied New!
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That in Germany the essay is condemned as a hybrid, that the form has no compelling tradition, that its emphatic demands are met only intermittently-all this has been said, and censured, often enough. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
extorted reconciliation, lyric work, foreign words Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Karl Kraus, German Romanticism, Neue Sachlichkeit, Thomas Mann, European Weltschmerz, Stefan George, Wanderers Nachtlied New!
Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Philosophy of Right (Dover Philosophical Classics) by Georg W. F. Hegel on page 61, page 126, and page 141
- Elective Affinities (Penguin Classics) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on page 28, page 101, and page 162
- Descartes: Discourse On Method by Laurence J. Lafleur on page 14, and Back Matter
- Dialectic of Enlightenment (Cultural Memory in the Present) by Max Horkheimer in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Man Without Qualities (2 volume set) by Robert Musil on page 34, and Back Matter
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- Language and History in Adorno's Notes to Literature (Studies in Philosophy) by Ulrich Plass on 30 pages
- The Cambridge Companion to Adorno (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) by Tom Huhn on 11 pages
- Critical Models by Theodor W. Adorno on 11 pages
- The Sovereignty of Art: Aesthetic Negativity in Adorno and Derrida (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) by Christoph Menke on 7 pages
- Textual Friendship: The Essay As Impossible Encounter From Plato And Montaigne To Levinas And Derrida (Philosophy and Literary Theory) by Kuisma Korhonen on 4 pages
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