Offers an account of the literary components of Adorno's thinking. This work is divided into three sections, dealing with the concept of literature, with poetry and poetics, and with modernity, drama and the novel respectively. It also provides a clear sense of the unique qualities of Adorno's philosophy of literature.

Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; David Cunningham and Nigel Mapp; Part I: Philosophy, Aesthetics And Literature; 1. Literature, and the Modern System of the Arts; Stewart Martin; 2. Adorno's Critical Presence: Cultural Theory and Literary Value; Kate Soper and Martin Ryle; 3. Interpretation and Truth: Adorno on Literature and Music; Andrew Bowie; 4. Adorno and the Poetics of Genre; Eva Geulen; Part Ii: Poetry And Poetics; 5. Lyric Poetry Before Auschwitz; Howard Caygill; 6. The Truth in Verse? Adorno, Wordsworth, Prosody; Simon Jarvis; 7. Lyric's Expression: Musicality, Conceptuality, Critical Agency; Robert Kaufman; 8. Returning to the 'House of Oblivion': Celan Between Adorno and Heidegger; Iain Macdonald; Part Iii: Modernity, Drama And The Novel; 9. Forgetting - Faust: Adorno and Kommerell; Paul Fleming; 10. Adorno's Aesthetic Theory and Lukacs's Theory of the Novel; Timothy Hall; 11. No Nature, No Nothing: Adorno, Beckett, Disenchantment; Nigel Mapp. 12. Late Style in Naipaul: Adorno's Aesthetic and the Postcolonial Novel; Timothy Bewes; 13. After Adorno: The Narrator of the Contemporary European Novel; David Cunningham; Index.