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

• Tác giả: Eric Downing
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-1501715938
• Thông tin xuất bản: Ithaca : Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2018.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (366 pages).
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 347960
• Chủ đề: 1. Aesthetics, German--19th century; 2. Aesthetics, German--20th century; 3. Books and reading--History--20th century--Germany; 4. Divination in literature; 5. Magic in literature

Tóm tắt

"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.