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The Boulevard of Sunset: Adorno's Lyric Subject.

This article considers Adorno's theory of lyric subjectivity through the prism of his own poetic experiments, particularly a sonnet he composed in Los Angeles in 1943. A closer examination of this poem offers insight into Adorno's idiosyncratic formulation of the subject-object dialectic, the poetic...

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Published in:New German Critique Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 185 - 208
Main Author: Kovalenko, George
Format: Literary Criticism
Published: Duke University Press Aug2025
Subjects:
Sonnet
Dialectic
Power (Social sciences)
Poets
Suffering
Artistic creation
Literary criticism
Adorno, Theodor W., 1903-1969
Los Angeles (Calif.)
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
Summary:This article considers Adorno's theory of lyric subjectivity through the prism of his own poetic experiments, particularly a sonnet he composed in Los Angeles in 1943. A closer examination of this poem offers insight into Adorno's idiosyncratic formulation of the subject-object dialectic, the poetics of the suffering body, and the political potential for collectivity in the lyric voice.