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1 online resource (269 pages) |
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text file |
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Urworte Goethisch : demonic primal words -- Demons of morphology -- Biographical demons (Goethe's Poetry and truth) -- 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). |
| Summary |
"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 Lukács, and Heimito von 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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Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
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Open Access Unrestricted online access |
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. |
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- criticism & interpretation.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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German literature. |
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Devil in literature. |
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Demonology in literature. |
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German. |
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Litterature allemande -- 20e siecle -- Histoire et critique. |
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Litterature allemande -- 19e siecle -- Histoire et critique. |
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Demon dans la litterature. |
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Demonologie dans la litterature. |
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German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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20th century |
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German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
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| Chronological Term |
19th century |
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Devil in literature.
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Demonology in literature.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books. .
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
Urworte orphisch. English.
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Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832.
Urworte orphisch.
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Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9780810132535 |
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9780810129764 |
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9780810167643 |
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0810167646 |
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