Adorno’s musical method could ground an intrinsic Marxist literary criticism

Evidence

If it should prove possible to do for the literary work what Adorno has thus done for musical analysis, then we should find ourselves in the presence of a kind of “intrinsic” Marxist criticism, a kind of Marxist philology or systematic investigation of the inner, social forms of art in general. Such a discipline would demand the prolongation of the various kinds of local critical studies (themselves already enlarged to the more adequate dimensions of the Hegelian model described above) to the point where, intersecting either with the realities of class or those of commodity production, they find themselves once more regrounded in concrete social history. — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 755

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: This intrinsic Marxist criticism — reading social forms in the inner structure of art — is exactly the analytic lens my ‘Grafting & Growth’ piece applied to trees-as-infrastructure and my ‘Sacrifice’ piece applied to Dido and sacral kingship: the social form inside the cultural object.
• SEED: Possible essay angle: apply ‘intrinsic Marxist criticism’ to a popular contemporary form — e.g., how the commodity form distorts the novel, the playlist, the open-world game — following Adorno’s musical method.
• XREF: connects to: Adorno’s commodity critique of music rests on homology, not mere analogy — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 485; Adorno established philosophy-of-history music aesthetics and social-theoretical literary criticism in postwar Germany — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2172; Adorno’s critique of culture is inseparable from its technical particulars across disciplines — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 31

Broader Connections

• Adorno’s critique of culture is inseparable from its technical particulars across disciplines #corroborates (0.85) — Fredric Jameson, Marxism and Form, 31
• Adorno’s commodity critique of music rests on homology, not mere analogy #expands (0.80) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 485
• Adorno established philosophy-of-history music aesthetics and social-theoretical literary criticism in postwar Germany #corroborates (0.75) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2172