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

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource Series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.) 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 Analysis German realism, German modernism, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane, Walter Benjamin Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher Subject German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism. German literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism Books and reading -- Germany -- History -- 19th century Books and reading -- Germany -- History -- 20th century Divination in literature. Magic in literature. Aesthetics, German -- 19th century. Aesthetics, German -- 20th century. LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German. Aesthetics, German Books and reading Divination in literature German literature Magic in literature Germany Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2017061791 ISBN 9781501715921 1501715925 9781501715938 1501715933 1501715909 9781501715907 9781501715914 1501715917

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