| Description |
xix, 432 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Princeton paperbacks ; v. 312 |
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Princeton paperbacks.
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| Contents |
T.W. Adorno; or, historical tropes -- Versions of a Marxist Hermeneutic. I. Watler Benjamin; or, nostalgia -- II. Marcuse and Schiller -- III. Ernst Bloch and the future -- The case for Georg Lukács -- Sartre and history -- Towards dialectical criticism |
| Summary |
Providing an account of the work of the European Marxist theorists, this book presents a framework for analyzing the connection between art and the historical circumstances of its making - in particular, how cultural artifacts distort, repress, or transform their circumstances through the abstractions of aesthetic form |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 417-424 |
| Subject |
Communism and literature.
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Communism in literature.
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Criticism.
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Dialectical materialism.
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Literary form.
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Literary form -- History -- 20th century.
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Marxist criticism.
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| LC no. |
71155962 |
| ISBN |
0691062048 |
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