TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wetters,Kirk
TI  - Demonic History: From Goethe to the Present 
SN  - 9780810129764
PB  - Northwestern University Press
KW  - Literary Criticism / European / German
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Literature
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Access copy available to the general public
N2  - 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
UR  - https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/40aa635a-a970-4418-a60c-1ad4113179f3
ER  -