ICLS1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: German Literature, Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Theodor W. Adorno

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: International Comparative Literature
• Course: ICLS1001
• Professor: Josh Stenberg

Document Summary

Ironic, humorous representation of a serious subject which outlines its faults and absurdities. The comedy in look who"s back will be different. The translation of the book and the underlying structure and satire in german tradition and literature: Can a nation make fun of the biggest crimes of history - based in that nation - looking at the diverse receptions of the text, the translators", and author"s perceptions. Modernist satire beginning with the exasperation at the genre"s traditional humanism, which typically informs the most radical satires with assumed moral rectitude. Suggests that modernist satire instead, concedes, scrutinizes, but then exploits the paradoxical "double movement" of the received genre - didactic urge to correct human error through derision always in tension with its destructive delight in that act of derision. Meant to critique and inform about what is not quite correct in society. Think about the media and context (market) of the literature.