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Adorno And Literature

By David Cunningham , Nigel Mapp

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
0826487521, 9780826487520, 9781847141835
Open Library ID
OL11454836M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
12 MB (12084652 bytes)
Pages
224\216
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Despite the recent upsurge of interest in Theodor Adorno's work, his literary writings remain generally neglected. Yet literature is a central element in his aesthetic theory. Building on the current emergent interest in modern philosophical aesthetics, this book offers a wide-ranging account of the literary components of Adorno's thinking. Bringing together original essays from a distinguished international group of contributors, it offers the reader a user-friendly path through the major areas of Adorno's work in this area. It is divided into three sections, dealing with the concept of literature, with poetry and poetics, and with modernity, drama and the novel respectively. At the same time, the book provides a clear sense of the unique qualities of Adorno's philosophy of literature by critically relating his work to a number of other influential theorists and theories including contemporary postmodernist thought and cultural studies.

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