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Demonic History : From Goethe to the Present /

"In this ambitious book, Kirk Wetters traces the idea of the demonic in German literature from its conceptual imbrications in Goethe to its varying legacies in the work of essential authors, both canonical and less well known, such as Friedrich Gundolf, Oswald Spengler, Walter Benjamin, Georg L...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Wetters, Kirk (Autor)
Otros Autores: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, [2014]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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).