The Chain of Things: Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940
(Part of the Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Series)
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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 Walter Benjamin drew on the ancient practice of divination, connecting the Greek idea of sympathetic magic to the German aesthetic concept of the attunement...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1501715917
ISBN13:9781501715914
Release Date:April 2018
Publisher:Cornell University Press and Cornell Universi
Length:366 Pages
Weight:1.19 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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