The chain of things : divinatory magic and the practice of reading in German literature and thought, 1850-1940 / Eric Downing.

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"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Main Author: Downing, Eric (Author)
Language:English
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2018.
Series:Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Subjects:
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.
Aesthetics, German.
Books and reading.
German literature.
Germany.
1800-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Physical Description:xiii, 349 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book

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