Eric Downing: 1 book
The Chain of Things
Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850–1940
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
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...
