The Chain of Things Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940

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 Wa...

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Main Author: Downing, Eric (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Ithaca Cornell University Press 2018
Series:Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
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