The Chain of Things : : Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 /

The Chain of Things : : Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 / / Eric Downing.

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In The Chain of Things, Eric Downing shows how the connection between divinatory magic and reading shaped the experience of reading and aesthetics among nineteenth-century realists and modernist thinkers. He explores how writers, artists, and critics such as Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane, and Wa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
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Downing, Eric,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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Physical Description:1 online resource (366 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Painting Magic in Keller's Green Henry
  • 2. Speaking Magic in Fontane's The Stechlin
  • 3. Reading Magic in Walter Benjamin
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

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