3: The Aesthetics of Ritual: Pollution, Magic, and Sentimentality in Hesse’s Demian (1919)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: From Outsider to Global Player — Hermann Hesse in the Twenty-First Century 1
5. 1: Novel Ideas: Notes toward a New Reading of Hesse’s Unterm Rad 17
6. 2: Roßhalde (1914): A Portrait of the Artist as a Husband and Father 57
7. 3: The Aesthetics of Ritual: Pollution, Magic, and Sentimentality in Hesse’s Demian (1919) 81
8. 4: Klein und Wagner 117
9. 5: Klingsors letzter Sommer and the Transformation of Crisis 139
10. 6: Siddhartha 149
11. 7: Der Steppenwolf 171
12. 8: Hermann Hesse’s Narziss und Goldmund: Medieval Imaginaries of (Post-)Modern Realities 187
13. 9: Beads of Glass, Shards of Culture, and the Art of Life: Hesse’s Das Glasperlenspiel 215
14. 10: Hesse’s Poetry 241
15. 11: “Ob die Weiber Menschen seyn?” Hesse, Women, and Homoeroticism 263
16. 12: Hermann Hesse’s Politics 301
17. 13: Hermann Hesse and Psychoanalysis 323
18. 14: On the Relationship between Hesse’s Painting and Writing: Wanderung, Klingsors letzter Sommer, Gedichte des Malers and Piktors Verwandlungen 345
19. 15: Hermann Hesse and Music 373
20. 16: Hermann Hesse’s Goethe 395
21. List of English Translations 421
22. Select Bibliography 423
23. Notes on the Contributors 427
24. Index 431