Demonic History : From Goethe to the Present
Wetters, Kirk
Demonic History : From Goethe to the Present - Evanston, Illinois Northwestern University Press 20150320
Open Access
In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, such as Gundolf, Spengler, Benjamin, Lukács, and Doderer. Wetters focuses especially on the philological and metaphorological resonances of the demonic from its core formations through its appropriations in the tumultuous twentieth century. Propelled by equal parts theoretical and historical acumen, Wetters explores the ways in which the question of the demonic has been employed to multiple theoretical, literary, and historico-political ends. He thereby produces an intellectual history that will be consequential both to scholars of German literature and to comparatists.
Creative Commons
English
j.ctv3znz5q
10.2307/j.ctv3znz5q doi
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Literature György Lukács Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Oswald Spengler Tyche
Demonic History : From Goethe to the Present - Evanston, Illinois Northwestern University Press 20150320
Open Access
In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the genealogy of the demonic in German literature from its imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, such as Gundolf, Spengler, Benjamin, Lukács, and Doderer. Wetters focuses especially on the philological and metaphorological resonances of the demonic from its core formations through its appropriations in the tumultuous twentieth century. Propelled by equal parts theoretical and historical acumen, Wetters explores the ways in which the question of the demonic has been employed to multiple theoretical, literary, and historico-political ends. He thereby produces an intellectual history that will be consequential both to scholars of German literature and to comparatists.
Creative Commons
English
j.ctv3znz5q
10.2307/j.ctv3znz5q doi
Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers
Literature György Lukács Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Oswald Spengler Tyche