Demonic History From Goethe to the Present / Kirk Wetters.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wetters, Kirk, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--History and criticism.

Literature.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Other Title:

Knowledge Unlatched.

Place of Publication:

Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Urworte Goethisch: Demonic Primal Words 21

Chapter 2 Demons of Morphology 39

Chapter 3 Biographical Demons (Goethe's Poetry and Truth) 59

Chapter 4 The Unhappy Endings of Morphology: Oswald Spengler's Demonic History 87

Chapter 5 Demonic Ambivalences: Walter Benjamin's Counter-Morphology 111

Chapter 6 Georg Lukács and the Demonic Novel 135

Chapter 7 Demonic Inheritances: Heimito von Doderer's The Demons 161.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Local Notes:

KU Select 2017: Backlist Collection

BiblioBoard internal publisher id: 101389

ISBN:

9780810129764