LEADER 03013 am 22005413u 450 001 9910279736103321 005 20211015132210.0 010 $a0-8101-6764-6 035 $a(CKB)2670000000567957 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001266245 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11704730 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001266245 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11250415 035 $a(PQKB)10241244 035 $a(OCoLC)890248950 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse33284 035 $a(ScCtBLL)40aa635a-a970-4418-a60c-1ad4113179f3 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000567957 100 $a20140328d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aDemonic History$b[electronic resource] $eFrom Goethe to the Present /$fKirk Wetters 210 $aEvanston, Illinois $cNorthwestern University Press$d2014 215 $a1 online resource 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8101-2976-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aUrworte 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). 330 $aIn 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, LukA?ˇcs, 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. 606 $aDevil in literature 606 $aDemonology in literature 606 $aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism 615 0$aDevil in literature. 615 0$aDemonology in literature. 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a830.937 700 $aWetters$b Kirk$0949605 701 2$aGoethe$b Johann Wolfgang von$f1749-1832.$0151776 701 2$aGoethe$b Johann Wolfgang von$f1749-1832.$0151776 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910279736103321 996 $aDemonic History$92246289 997 $aUNINA