TY  - GEN
T1  - Adorno and "A writing of the ruins" : essays on modern aesthetics and Anglo-American literature and culture
A1  - Harding, James Martin, 1958-
LA  - English
PP  - Albany
PB  - State University of New York Press
YR  - 1997
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm42855915
AB  - Arguing that postmodernism has so shifted current critical paradigms that Adorno's work can best be assessed in terms of its relevance in specific localized contexts, this book pursues a course that preserves Adorno's opposition to hegemonic programs but that is also wary of Adorno's own (negative) penchant for totalizing concepts. Unlike recent works which attempt to synthesize Adorno's writings into a comprehensive system that then becomes either the focus of an overriding critique or an object of appropriation, Harding orders his book as a collection of essays whose loose association questions the structural totality of Adorno's thought. Though together the essays cover all the major issues of Adorno's thought and offer a wide critical survey of his writings, the diversity of their focus avoids a systematic reduction of Adorno's work into a reproducible technique or method. The result of this strategy is a far more dynamic analysis of Adorno than a mere critical reconstruction of his ideas. By applying Adorno's theories to works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Ralph Ellison, and Amiri Baraka, the book pushes critical discussion of Adorno into cultural contexts that, while perhaps new for Adorno scholars, reach out to those whose knowledge of Adorno is limited. This book is a fine introduction to the subtleties of Adorno's writing and a genuine contribution to Adorno scholarship.
OP  - 197
CN  - PS221 .H353 1997eb
SN  - 0585076138
SN  - 9780585076133
SN  - 9781438405773
SN  - 1438405774
SN  - 0791432696
SN  - 079143270X
KW  - Beckett, Samuel, : 1906-1989. : En attendant Godot.
KW  - Adorno, Theodor W., : 1903-1969 : Aesthetics.
KW  - Adorno, Theodor W., : 1903-1969
KW  - En attendant Godot (Beckett, Samuel)
KW  - American literature : 20th century : History and criticism : Theory, etc.
KW  - Aesthetics, Modern : 20th century.
KW  - Postmodernism (Literature)
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Littérature américaine : 20e siècle : Histoire et critique : Théorie, etc.
KW  - Esthétique : 20e siècle.
KW  - Postmodernisme (Littérature)
KW  - Modernisme (Littérature)
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General.
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Aesthetics, Modern
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -