The Chain of Things : Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850–1940
by
Eric Downing
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1501715917
ISBN-13
9781501715914
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Imprint
Cornell University Press and Cornell University Li
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Apr 15th, 2018
Print length
277 Pages
Weight
907 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 2.40 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Magic, alchemy & hermetic thought
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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...
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