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oapen-20.500.12657-297042023-01-31T18:45:36Z Demonic History Wetters, Kirk Literature György Lukács Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Oswald Spengler Tyche bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DS Literature: history & criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers 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. 2018-07-10 23:55 2020-03-12 03:00:31 2020-04-01T12:36:16Z 2020-04-01T12:36:16Z 2015-03-20 book 1000241 OCN: 1076659362 9780810129764 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/29704 eng application/pdf n/a 1000241.pdf Northwestern University Press 10.2307/j.ctv3znz5q 101389 10.2307/j.ctv3znz5q b4699693-8bd9-4982-b22e-c153becb6f4b b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780810129764 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Evanston, Illinois 101389 KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection Knowledge Unlatched open access
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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.
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