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

ISBN: 1501715917

ISBN13: 9781501715914

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

(Part of the Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Series)

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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 divination, connecting the Greek idea of sympathetic magic to the German aesthetic concept of the attunement...

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