03013 am 22005413u 450 991027973610332120211015132210.00-8101-6764-6(CKB)2670000000567957(SSID)ssj0001266245(PQKBManifestationID)11704730(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001266245(PQKBWorkID)11250415(PQKB)10241244(OCoLC)890248950(MdBmJHUP)muse33284(ScCtBLL)40aa635a-a970-4418-a60c-1ad4113179f3(EXLCZ)99267000000056795720140328d2014 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrDemonic History[electronic resource] From Goethe to the Present /Kirk WettersEvanston, Illinois Northwestern University Press20141 online resourceBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8101-2976-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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).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.Devil in literatureDemonology in literatureGerman literatureHistory and criticismDevil in literature.Demonology in literature.German literatureHistory and criticism.830.937Wetters Kirk949605Goethe Johann Wolfgang von1749-1832.151776Goethe Johann Wolfgang von1749-1832.151776MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910279736103321Demonic History2246289UNINA