Notes to literature

Notes to literature

by Adorno, Theodor W.

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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 indu…

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  • Full title :Notes to literature. / Theodor W. Adorno ; edited by Rolf Tiedemann ; translated from the German by Shierry Weber Nicholsen.

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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.

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:1992.

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  • Description:xx, 350 pages ; : 23 cm.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9780231069137, 0231069138
  • oclc:ocn918422483
  • LC Classification:PN514
  • Dewey Decimal:809

Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Literature Literature -- History And Criticism Littérature -- Histoire et critique

Writers

Adorno, Theodor W. Tiedemann, Rolf

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