LEADER 04090nam 22008055 450 001 9910682544403321 005 20240506163405.0 010 $a9781501715907 010 $a1501715909 010 $a9781501715938 010 $a1501715933 024 7 $a10.1515/9781501715938 035 $a(CKB)4340000000260341 035 $a(OCoLC)1019834442 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse65785 035 $a(DLC) 2017061791 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001929464 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5321344 035 $a(DE-B1597)496507 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501715938 035 $a(Perlego)547220 035 $a(oapen)doab99283 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000260341 100 $a20191126d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Chain of Things $eDivinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850-1940 /$fEric Downing 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aIthaca$cCornell University Press$d2018 210 1$aIthaca, NY : $cCornell University Press, $d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource 225 0 $aSignale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2018. 311 08$a9781501715914 311 08$a1501715917 311 08$a9781501715921 311 08$a1501715925 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Painting Magic in Keller's Green Henry -- $t2. Speaking Magic in Fontane's The Stechlin -- $t3. Reading Magic in Walter Benjamin -- $tNotes -- $tWorks Cited -- $tIndex 330 $aIn The Chain of Things, Eric Downing shows how the connection between divinatory magic and reading shaped the experience of reading and aesthetics among nineteenth-century realists and modernist thinkers. He explores how writers, artists, and critics such as Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane, and Walter Benjamin drew on the ancient practice of divination, connecting the Greek idea of sympathetic magic to the German aesthetic concept of the attunement of mood and atmosphere.Downing deftly traces the genealogical connection between reading and art in classical antiquity, nineteenth-century realism, and modernism, attending to the ways in which the modern re-enchantment of the world-both in nature and human society-consciously engaged ancient practices that aimed at preternatural prediction. Of particular significance to the argument presented in The Chain of Things is how the future figured into the reading of texts during this period, a time when the future as a narrative determinant or article of historical faith was losing its force. Elaborating a new theory of magic as a critical tool, Downing secures crucial links between the governing notions of time, world, the "real," and art. 410 0$aSignale (Ithaca, N.Y.) 606 $aAesthetics, German$y20th century 606 $aAesthetics, German$y19th century 606 $aMagic in literature 606 $aDivination in literature 606 $aBooks and reading$zGermany$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aBooks and reading$zGermany$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aGerman literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 606 $aGerman literature$y19th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aAesthetics, German 615 0$aAesthetics, German 615 0$aMagic in literature. 615 0$aDivination in literature. 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aGerman literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a830.9/008 700 $aDowning$b Eric, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0607469 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910682544403321 996 $aThe Chain of Things$93086969 997 $aUNINA