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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Signale : modern German letters, cultures, and thought | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2018Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (366 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501715938
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Contents:
Painting magic in Keller's Green Henry -- Speaking magic in Fontane's The Stechlin -- Reading magic in Walter Benjamin.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Painting magic in Keller's Green Henry -- Speaking magic in Fontane's The Stechlin -- Reading magic in Walter Benjamin.

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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"-- Provided by publisher.

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