The Chain of Things : Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850–1940 /
Eric Downing.
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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"--
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Keller, Gottfried 1819-1890 1854-1855 Der grüne Heinrich Fontane, Theodor 1819-1898 Der Stechlin Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940
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