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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.

Aesthetics, German --- Magic in literature. --- Divination in literature. --- Books and reading --- German literature --- Young Germany --- Appraisal of books --- Books --- Choice of books --- Evaluation of literature --- Literature --- Reading, Choice of --- Reading and books --- Reading habits --- Reading public --- Reading --- Reading interests --- Reading promotion --- History --- History and criticism. --- Appraisal --- Evaluation --- German realism, German modernism, Gottfried Keller, Theodor Fontane, Walter Benjamin.

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In this pioneering, erudite study of a pivotal era in the arts, Walter Frisch examines music and its relationship to early modernism in the Austro-German sphere. Seeking to explore the period on its own terms, Frisch questions the common assumption that works created from the later 1870's through World War I were transitional between late romanticism and high modernism. Drawing on a wide range of examples across different media, he establishes a cultural and intellectual context for late Richard Wagner, Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, and Arnold Schoenberg, as well as their less familiar contemporaries Eugen d'Albert, Hans Pfitzner, Max Reger, Max von Schillings, and Franz Schreker. Frisch explores "ambivalent" modernism in the last quarter of the nineteenth century as reflected in the attitudes of, and relationship between, Nietzsche and Wagner. He goes on to examine how naturalism, the first self-conscious movement of German modernism, intersected with musical values and practices of the day. He proposes convergences between music and the visual arts in the works of Brahms, Max Klinger, Schoenberg, and Kandinsky. Frisch also explains how, near the turn of the century, composers drew inspiration and techniques from music of the past-the Renaissance, Bach, Mozart, and Wagner. Finally, he demonstrates how irony became a key strategy in the novels and novellas of Thomas Mann, the symphonies of Mahler, and the operas of Strauss and Hofmannsthal.

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This volume is an exploration of the varied and sometimes unrecognized ways in which music—especially in ritual contexts—can serve as both a spiritual conduit as well as a theological source. With topics ranging from a Congolese choir in Ireland to the Orthodox chant in Georgia, from postmodern reflections on new Passion compositions to reflections on the sacramentality of Black gospel music, this volume offers a rich plumbing of very diverse yet well researched musical traditions—case studies from around the globe—for their spiritual and theological contributions.

Music --- Charismatic Prayer Meeting --- Praise and Worship --- Speaking/Singing in Tongues --- spirituality --- music --- wellbeing --- Korean migrants --- Theodor Adorno --- Dietrich Bonhoeffer --- Karl Barth --- Anton Webern --- Gustav Mahler --- demythologization --- secularization --- Confessing Church --- German modernism --- singing --- migration --- asylum-seeker --- refugee --- the sacred --- creativity --- sonority --- Ireland --- the Congo --- Passion --- liminality --- ritual --- postmodernism --- choral music --- 21st century music --- sacred music --- composition --- theology --- theoartistry --- annunciation --- Hebrew Bible --- James MacMillan --- Michael Symmons Roberts --- Jeremy Begbie --- keen --- wake --- funeral --- tradition --- custom --- culture --- history --- chant --- Georgian chant --- Orthodox theology --- exegesis of tradition --- aesthetics --- polyphony --- oral tradition --- Dionysios the Areopagite --- sacramentality --- gospel --- African American --- dance --- Charismatic Prayer Meeting --- Praise and Worship --- Speaking/Singing in Tongues --- spirituality --- music --- wellbeing --- Korean migrants --- Theodor Adorno --- Dietrich Bonhoeffer --- Karl Barth --- Anton Webern --- Gustav Mahler --- demythologization --- secularization --- Confessing Church --- German modernism --- singing --- migration --- asylum-seeker --- refugee --- the sacred --- creativity --- sonority --- Ireland --- the Congo --- Passion --- liminality --- ritual --- postmodernism --- choral music --- 21st century music --- sacred music --- composition --- theology --- theoartistry --- annunciation --- Hebrew Bible --- James MacMillan --- Michael Symmons Roberts --- Jeremy Begbie --- keen --- wake --- funeral --- tradition --- custom --- culture --- history --- chant --- Georgian chant --- Orthodox theology --- exegesis of tradition --- aesthetics --- polyphony --- oral tradition --- Dionysios the Areopagite --- sacramentality --- gospel --- African American --- dance