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 espec...

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Main Author: Wetters, Kirk (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Evanston, Illinois Northwestern University Press 20150320
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