ISBN-13: 9781501715914 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 366 str.
ISBN-13: 9781501715914 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 366 str.
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...