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Notes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction, David Cunningham (University of Westminster, UK) and Nigel Mapp (University of Tampere, Finland)Part I: Philosophy, Aesthetics and Literature1. Literature, and the Modern System of the Arts: Sources of Criticism in Adorno, Stewart Martin (Middlesex University, UK)2. Adorno's Critical Presence: Cultural Theory and Literary Value, Martin Ryle (University of Sussex, UK) and Kate Soper (London Metropolitan University, UK)3. Interpretation and Truth: Adorno on Literature and Music, Andrew Bowie (Royal Holloway, UK)4. Adorno and the Poetics of Genre, Eva Geulen (University of Bonn, Germany)Part II: Poetry and Poetics 5. Lyric Poetry Before Auschwitz, Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths, UK)6. The Truth in Verse? Adorno, Wordsworth, Prosody, Simon Jarvis (University of Cambridge, UK)7. Lyric's Expression: Musicality, Conceptuality, Critical Agency, Robert Kaufman (Stanford University, USA)8. Returbaning to the 'House of Oblivion': Celan Between Adorno and Heidegger, Iain Macdonald (University of Montreal, Canada)Part III: Modernity, Drama and the Novel 9. Forgetting - Faust: Adorno and Kommerell, Paul Fleming (New York University, USA)10. Adorno's Aesthetic Theory and Lukács's Theory of the Novel, Timothy Hall (University of East London, UK)11. No Nature, No Nothing: Adorno, Beckett, Disenchantment, Nigel Mapp (University of Tampere, Finland)12. Late Style in Naipaul: Adorno's Aesthetic and the Postcolonial Novel, Timothy Bewes (Brown University, USA)13. After Adorno: The Narrator of the Contemporary European Novel, David Cunningham (University of Westminster, UK)Index