Demonic History : From Goethe to the Present /

Demonic History : From Goethe to the Present /

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"In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the idea of the demonic in German literature from its conceptual imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, such as Friedrich Gundolf, Oswald Spengler, Walter Benjamin, Georg L...

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Main Author: Wetters, Kirk (Author)
Other Authors: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2014]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, > 1749-1832.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, > 1749-1832 > criticism & interpretation
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, > 1749-1832 > Criticism and interpretation.
German literature.
Devil in literature.
Demonology in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Litterature allemande > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Litterature allemande > 19e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Demon dans la litterature.
Demonologie dans la litterature.
German literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
German literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Urworte Goethisch : demonic primal words
  • Demons of morphology
  • Biographical demons (Goethe's Poetry and truth)
  • The unhappy endings of morphology : Oswald Spengler's demonic history
  • Demonic ambivalences : Walter Benjamin's counter-morphology
  • Georg Lukacs and the demonic novel
  • Demonic inheritances : Heimito von Doderer's The demons
  • Conclusion. transformations of the demonic
  • Appendix : German text and English translation of Goethe's "Urworte orphisch" (with commentary).

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