UID:
almafu_9961152728002883
Format:
1 online resource (539 pages).
ISBN:
0-231-55029-4
Series Statement:
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Content:
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.
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Notes to Literature --
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Frontmatter --
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CONTENTS --
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INTRODUCTION TO THE COMBINED EDITION --
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VOLUME ONE --
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TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE --
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EDITORIAL REMARKS FROM THE GERMAN EDITION --
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PART I --
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1. The Essay as Form --
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2. On Epic Naiveté --
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3. The Position of the Narrator in the Contemporary Novel --
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4. On Lyric Poetry and Society --
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5. In Memory of Eichendorff --
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6. Heine the Wound --
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7. Looking Back on Surrealism --
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8. Punctuation Marks --
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9. The Artist as Deputy --
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PART II --
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10. On the Final Scene of Faust --
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11. Reading Balzac --
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12. Valéry's Deviations --
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13. Short Commentaries on Proust --
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14. Words from Abroad --
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15. Ernst Bloch's Spuren --
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16. Extorted Reconciliation: On Georg Lukács' Realism in Our Time --
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17. Trying to Understand Endgame --
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VOLUME TWO --
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TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE --
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EDITORIAL REMARKS FROM THE GERMAN EDITION --
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PART III --
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18. Titles: Paraphrases on Lessing --
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19. Toward a Portrait of Thomas Mann --
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20. Bibliographical Musings --
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21. On an Imaginary Feuilleton --
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22. Morals and Criminality: On the Eleventh Volume of the Works of Karl Kraus --
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23. The Curious Realist: On Siegfried Kracauer --
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24. Commitment --
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25. Presuppositions: On the Occasion of a Reading by Hans G. Helms --
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26. Parataxis: On Hölderlin's Late Poetry --
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PART IV --
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27. On the Classicism of Goethe's Iphigenie --
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28. On Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop: A Lecture --
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29. Stefan George --
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30. Charmed Language: On the Poetry of Rudolf Borchardt --
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31. The Handle, the Pot, and Early Experience: Ui, haww' ich gesacht --
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32. Introduction to Benjamin's Schriften --
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33. Benjamin the Letter Writer --
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34. An Open Letter to Rolf Hochhuth --
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35. Is Art Lighthearted? --
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NOTES --
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INDEX
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In English and German.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-231-17964-2
Language:
English
