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Author Downing, Eric, author.

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

Publication Info. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018.
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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism.
German literature.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Books and reading -- Germany -- History -- 19th century.
Books and reading.
Germany.
History.
Books and reading -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
Divination in literature.
Divination in literature.
Magic in literature.
Magic in literature.
Aesthetics, German -- 19th century.
Aesthetics, German.
Aesthetics, German -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Downing, Eric. Chain of things. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018 9781501715907 (DLC) 2017060430
ISBN 9781501715921 (epub/mobi)
1501715925
9781501715938 (pdf)
1501715933
9781501715907

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