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OverviewAdorno's Poetics of Form is the first book-length examination of the elusive deployment of the concept of form in Adorno's writings on art and literature, and the first monograph to offer a comprehensive account of the relation of these writings to his broader philosophical project. It examines form within the constellation of concepts that exist around it, considering how it appears when seen in conjunction with and in opposition to content, expression, genre, and material. Illuminated from these angles, form is revealed as the site of a complex web of dynamic conceptual interactions. The book thus offers a resolution to a problem in Adorno's work that has remained unsolved for several decades, and in doing so sets out the consequences of Adorno's poetics for literary and critical theory today. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Josh RobinsonPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.227kg ISBN: 9781438469836ISBN 10: 1438469837 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 June 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsAbbreviations of Works by Adorno Acknowledgments Introduction Form Adorno Poetics Philology Constellation 1. Form and Content Adorno and Heidegger: The Form of the Thing ‘Parataxis’ Parataxis and Linguistic Form Form as Sedimented Content Parataxis in Adorno’s reading of ‘Der Einzige’ Consequences for Form and Content 2. Form and Expression The Mediation of Form and Expression Literary and Musical Expressionism Expressionism and Surrealism Kafka Mimesis Consequences for the Theory of Form 3. Form and Genre The Fraying of Borders The Genesis of the Forms Universal and Particular Nominalism and its Discontents Bourgeois Art and the Culture Industry The Novel as Form Theory of the Essay 4. Form and Material Material and Content Technique and the Mastery of Material Language and Poetry The Literary Manifestation of Form and Material Consequences for the Theory of Form 5. Artistic Form and the Commodity Form Social and Abstract Labor Abstraction and Exchange Mediation and Form Purposiveness, Communication, Language Poetry and Reconciliation Art Beauty and Natural Beauty Priority of the Object Coda Lyric Engaging Form Beyond the New Formalism Conclusion Notes Works Cited IndexReviewsIn Adorno's Poetics of Form, Josh Robinson carries out a necessary and fruitful investigation into the way we think about art, and the potential embedded in particular works ... Robinson has produced a highly readable and accomplished contribution to the scholarship on Theodor Adorno's aesthetic project as it pertains to the question of form, and a thought-provoking reformation of the Marxist theory of art. - Phenomenological Reviews Adorno's Poetics of Form is at once a kind of casebook (Robinson has read a lot of Adorno so you don't have to) and a critical work (Robinson has drawn out implicit Adornoian concerns and drawn together a constellation of formal concerns). Taken together, this simply means that Adorno's Poetics of Form invites (and deserves) the same kind of attention it gives to its collection of texts. - Mediations In Adorno's Poetics of Form, Josh Robinson carries out a necessary and fruitful investigation into the way we think about art, and the potential embedded in particular works ... Robinson has produced a highly readable and accomplished contribution to the scholarship on Theodor Adorno's aesthetic project as it pertains to the question of form, and a thought-provoking reformation of the Marxist theory of art. - Phenomenological Reviews Author InformationJosh Robinson is Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University in the United Kingdom. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |