The Chain of Things : : Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 / / Eric Downing.
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 Wa...
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Downing, Eric, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Chain of Things : Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 / Eric Downing. 1st ed. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought Previously issued in print: 2018. Specialized. Includes bibliographical references and index. Frontmatter -- Index -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Painting Magic in Keller's Green Henry -- 2. Speaking Magic in Fontane's The Stechlin -- 3. Reading Magic in Walter Benjamin -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index 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 of mood and atmosphere.Downing deftly traces the genealogical connection between reading and art in classical antiquity, nineteenth-century realism, and modernism, attending to the ways in which the modern re-enchantment of the world-both in nature and human society-consciously engaged ancient practices that aimed at preternatural prediction. Of particular significance to the argument presented in The Chain of Things is how the future figured into the reading of texts during this period, a time when the future as a narrative determinant or article of historical faith was losing its force. Elaborating a new theory of magic as a critical tool, Downing secures crucial links between the governing notions of time, world, the "real," and art. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Nov 2019) In English. Issued also in print. Aesthetics, German 20th century. Aesthetics, German 19th century. Magic in literature. Divination in literature. Books and reading Germany History 20th century. Books and reading Germany History 19th century. German literature 20th century History and criticism. German literature 19th century History and criticism. Electronic books. German realism, German modernism, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane, Walter Benjamin. 1-5017-1591-7 1-5017-1592-5 Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.) |
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