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Eric Downing

Author of The chain of things : divinatory magic and the practice of reading in German literature and thought, 1850-1940

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Eric Downing is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Works by Eric Downing

The chain of things : divinatory magic and the practice of reading in German literature and thought, 1850-1940 (2018) 10 copies

Literary studies and the pursuits of reading (2012) — Editor — 7 copies

German Literature of the Nineteenth Century, 1832-1899 (2005) 4 copies

Artificial I's : the self as artwork in Ovid, Kierkegaard, and Thomas Mann (1993) 2 copies

Double Exposures: Repetition and Realism in Nineteenth-Century German Fiction (2000) 1 copy

Nexus: Essays in German Jewish Studies. Volume 5: Moments of enlightenment, in memory of Jonathan M. Hess (2021) — Editor — 1 copy

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Constructions of the Classical Body (The Body, In Theory: Histories of Cultural Materialism) (1999) — Contributor — 14 copies

Cabinet of the Muses: Essays on Classical and Comparative Literature in Honor of Thomas G. Rosenmeyer — Contributor — 1 copy

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ISBNs: 14
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