Notes to Literature is a collection of the great social theorist Theodor W. Adorno’s essays on such writers as Mann, Bloch, Hölderlin, 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.
ISBN: | 9780231179645 |
Publication date: | 1st October 2019 |
Author: | Theodor W Adorno, Paul Kottman |
Publisher: | Columbia University Press |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 544 pages |
Series: | European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism |
Genres: |
Literary studies: general Literary theory |