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... this is a work of engaged and engaging criticism whose dis-disenchanting programme will move its readers to (re)visit not just the two target novels but, in principle, any other work marked 'realist.' * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *

Eric Downing's approach to divination promises to break new ground with an erudite scope that ranges ambitiously from classical antiquity to the works of Benjamin and Freud in the twentieth century. This is the work of a scholar at the height of his considerable powers. -- Catriona MacLeod, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania Eric Downing succeeds in giving new depth to the practice of tracing images and leitmotifs by regarding them as more than merely technical ways of assuring textual coherence. Downing's introduction of the term 'magic' is well attuned to our time, concerned as it is with a perceived loss of relevance in the humanities. -- Judith Ryan, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Harvard University

Eric Downing succeeds in giving new depth to the practice of tracing images and leitmotifs by regarding them as more than merely technical ways of assuring textual coherence. Downing's introduction of the term 'magic' is well attuned to our time, concerned as it is with a perceived loss of relevance in the humanities. --Judith Ryan, Robert K. and Dale J. Weary Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Harvard University Eric Downing's approach to divination promises to break new ground with an erudite scope that ranges ambitiously from classical antiquity to the works of Benjamin and Freud in the twentieth century. This is the work of a scholar at the height of his considerable powers. --Catriona MacLeod, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of German and Chair of the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures at the University of Pennsylvania

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Eric Downing is Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature and Adjunct Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina.

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