The Chain of Things
by Eric Downing
German literature, history and criticism, 19th centuryGerman literature, history and criticism, 20th centuryBooks and readingAesthetics, germanGerman literatureHistory and criticismHistoryDivination in literature
"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"--
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