Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I: Philosophy, Aesthetics and Literature -- 1. Literature and the Modern System of the Arts: Sources of Criticism in Adorno -- 2. Adorno's Critical Presence: Cultural Theory and Literary Value -- 3. Interpretation and Truth: Adorno on Literature and Music -- 4. Adorno and the Poetics of Genre -- Part II: Poetry and Poetics -- 5. Lyric Poetry Before Auschwitz -- 6. The Truth in Verse? Adorno, Wordsworth, Prosody -- 7. Lyric's Expression: Musicality, Conceptuality, Critical Agency -- 8. Returning to the 'House of Oblivion': Celan Between Adorno and Heidegger -- Part III: Modernity, Drama and the Novel -- 9. Forgetting - Faust: Adorno and Kommerell -- 10. Adorno's Aesthetic Theory and Lukács's Theory of the Novel -- 11. No Nature, No Nothing: Adorno, Beckett, Disenchantment -- 12. Late Style in Naipaul: Adorno's Aesthetics and the Post-Colonial Novel -- 13. After Adorno: The Narrator of the Contemporary European Novel -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- P -- R -- S -- V -- W -- Z.