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Notes to Literature (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism) - Hardcover

Adorno, Theodor W.

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9780231069120: Notes to Literature (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism)
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ISBN 10: 023106912X ISBN 13: 9780231069120
Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1992

Synopsis

Available in English for the first time, this is a collection of Adorno's essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Holderlin, Kare Kraust, Sigfried Kracauer, Goethe, Benjamin and Stefan George. Also included are Adorno's reflections on a variety of subjects: 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, to name a few.

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This volume differs from the first in that its contents are less well known in English, both in that few of these essays have previously appeared in translation and in that they deal, to a far greater extent than in the first volume, with works written in German, often works which are untranslated or relatively little read in America. Nevertheless, these essays contain some of Adorno's most highly elaborated articulations of his understanding of literary and poetic language, and I think they will prove extremely valuable to English-speaking readers, even those who know no German.

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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"

"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

"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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Publisher
Columbia University Press
Publication date
1992
Language
English
ISBN 10 
023106912X
ISBN 13 
9780231069120
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
374
Rating
  • 4.55 out of 5 stars
    31 ratings by Goodreads