E-Book, Englisch, 366 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm
Reihe: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
Divinatory Magic and the Practice of Reading in German Literature and Thought, 1850–1940
E-Book, Englisch, 366 Seiten, EPUB, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 228 mm
Reihe: Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
ISBN: 978-1-5017-1592-1
Verlag: Cornell University Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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.