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The Chain of ThingsThe Chain of Things

The Chain of Things

Eric Downing

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"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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OL20585950W

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German literature, history and criticism, 19th centuryGerman literature, history and criticism, 20th centuryBooks and readingAesthetics, germanGerman literatureHistory and criticismHistoryDivination in literatureMagic in literatureGerman Aesthetics

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