Demonic History From Goethe to the Present

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 espe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Wetters, Kirk, author (author), Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press 2014.
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009423011806719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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).