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.

"Shows how the connection between divinatory magic and reading shaped the experience of reading and aesthetics among nineteenth-century realists and modernist thinkers, including writers, artists, and critics such as Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane, and Walter Benjamin"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Downing, Eric (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:
1800-1999
German literature > 19th century > History and criticism.
German literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Books and reading > Germany > History > 19th century.
Books and reading > Germany > History > 20th century.
Divination in literature.
Magic in literature.
Aesthetics, German > 19th century.
Aesthetics, German > 20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Aesthetics, German
Books and reading
Divination in literature
German literature
Magic in literature
Germany
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Painting magic in Keller's Green Henry
  • Speaking magic in Fontane's The Stechlin
  • Reading magic in Walter Benjamin.

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