Demonic History
From Goethe to the Present
Author(s)
Wetters, Kirk
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
101389Language
EnglishAbstract
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.
Keywords
Literature; György Lukács; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; Oswald Spengler; TycheDOI
10.2307/j.ctv3znz5qISBN
9780810129764OCN
1076659362Publisher
Northwestern University PressPublisher website
https://nupress.northwestern.edu/Publication date and place
Evanston, Illinois, 2015-03-20Classification
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers