TY - BOOK AU - Adorno,Theodor W. AU - Kottman,Paul AU - Kottman,Paul A. AU - Nicholsen,Shierry Weber AU - Tiedemann,Rolf TI - Notes to Literature T2 - European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism SN - 9780231179645 AV - PN514 .A313 2019 U1 - 809 23 PY - 2019///] CY - New York, NY : PB - Columbia University Press, KW - Literature KW - History and criticism KW - PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; INTRODUCTION TO THE COMBINED EDITION --; VOLUME ONE --; TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE --; EDITORIAL REMARKS FROM THE GERMAN EDITION --; PART I --; 1. The Essay as Form --; 2. On Epic Naiveté --; 3. The Position of the Narrator in the Contemporary Novel --; 4. On Lyric Poetry and Society --; 5. In Memory of Eichendorff --; 6. Heine the Wound --; 7. Looking Back on Surrealism --; 8. Punctuation Marks --; 9. The Artist as Deputy --; PART II --; 10. On the Final Scene of Faust --; 11. Reading Balzac --; 12. Valéry's Deviations --; 13. Short Commentaries on Proust --; 14. Words from Abroad --; 15. Ernst Bloch's Spuren --; 16. Extorted Reconciliation: On Georg Lukács' Realism in Our Time --; 17. Trying to Understand Endgame --; VOLUME TWO --; TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE --; EDITORIAL REMARKS FROM THE GERMAN EDITION --; PART III --; 18. Titles: Paraphrases on Lessing --; 19. Toward a Portrait of Thomas Mann --; 20. Bibliographical Musings --; 21. On an Imaginary Feuilleton --; 22. Morals and Criminality: On the Eleventh Volume of the Works of Karl Kraus --; 23. The Curious Realist: On Siegfried Kracauer --; 24. Commitment --; 25. Presuppositions: On the Occasion of a Reading by Hans G. Helms --; 26. Parataxis: On Hölderlin's Late Poetry --; PART IV --; 27. On the Classicism of Goethe's Iphigenie --; 28. On Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop: A Lecture --; 29. Stefan George --; 30. Charmed Language: On the Poetry of Rudolf Borchardt --; 31. The Handle, the Pot, and Early Experience: Ui, haww' ich gesacht --; 32. Introduction to Benjamin's Schriften --; 33. Benjamin the Letter Writer --; 34. An Open Letter to Rolf Hochhuth --; 35. Is Art Lighthearted? --; NOTES --; INDEX; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.7312/ador17964 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231550291 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231550291/original ER -