Brian Friel and Theodor W. Adorno
Essays on Two Modern Dialecticians
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Table Of Contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- About the author
- About the book
- This eBook can be cited
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: Imagination and Reality
- Chapter 1 Brian Friel and Theodor W. Adorno: Two Modern Dialecticians
- Chapter 2 Metaphysical Experience and the Problem of Tradition
- Chapter 3 Brian Friel and Theodor W. Adorno: Utopia, Dialectics, and Performances
- Chapter 4 The Truth About Hedda Gabler: Ibsens Play, Brian Friels Version, and Adornos Reflections
- Chapter 5 Brian Friel and Francis Bacon: Artistic Creation and Faith Healing Viewed in the Light of Negative Dialectics
- Bibliography
- Index
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Names: Velten-Mrowka, Christa, 1943- author.
Title: Brian Friel and Theodor W. Adorno : essays on two modern
dialecticians / Christa Velten-Mrowka.
Description: Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2023. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2023018705 (print) | LCCN 2023018706 (ebook) | ISBN
9781803740737 (paperback) | ISBN 9781803740744 (ebook) | ISBN
9781803740751 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Friel, Brian--Philosophy. | Friel, Brian--Criticism and
interpretation. | Dialectic in literature. | Adorno, Theodor W.,
1903-1969. | Dialectic. | LCGFT: Essays.
Classification: LCC PR6056.R5 Z97 2023 (print) | LCC PR6056.R5 (ebook) |
DDC 822/.914--dc23/eng/20230605
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023018705
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023018706
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DOI 10.3726/b20444
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About the author
Christa Velten-Mrowka, born in Limburg, Germany, taught English language and literature and philosophy at Senior Secondary Schools near Frankfurt a. M. In the 1960s she was a student of Adorno and Max Horkheimer at Frankfurt’s Goethe-University. A long-term member of IASIL she published essays on Brian Friel.
About the book
This book discusses how from their diff erent backgrounds and on diff erent levels, the German philosopher, sociologist and musicologist,Theodor W. Adorno, (1903-1969) and the Irish playwright, Brian Friel,(1929-2015) came to the conclusion that the modern crisis rendered art’s affi rmative essence, like all positivistic fi xations, obsolete. Only a new conception of dialectics, based on the reciprocity of opposites, rather than on antitheses, is capable of healing modern dichotomies. Independent of Adorno’s Negative Dialectics and Critical Theory, Friel is aware that with the processual character of life this requires of the artist in particular an attitude both critical and conciliatory and a persistent readiness to change. Reality is in need of possibility, its dialectic other. Uncertainty, in Friel’s Theatre of Hope and Despair is no longer a defect of our time, but a source of creation in art as well as in life.
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Acknowledgements
My thanks to Prof. Emily Pine, UCD, for allowing my essay ‘Brian Friel and Theodor W. Adorno: Utopia, Dialectics and Performances’, first published in Irish University Review, 48/2 (Autumn/Winter 2018), to be included in this book.
Details
- Pages
- XVIII, 130
- Year
- 2023
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9781803740744
- ISBN (ePUB)
- 9781803740751
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9781803740737
- DOI
- 10.3726/b20444
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2023 (September)
- Keywords
- Art and philosophy individual and society modern crisis metaphysics today utopia aesthetic experience creative process reconciliation of opposites artistic self-reflection Brian Friel and Theodor W. Adorno Essays on Two Modern Dialecticians Christa Velten-Mrowka
- Published
- Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, New York, Wien, 2023. XVIII, 130 pp.
