Aesthetic Vision and German Romanticism - Writing Images

Crosses disciplinary boundaries to explore German Romantic writing about visual experience and the interplay of text and image in Romantic epistemology.

List of contents

Introduction
Interior and Exterior: G.E. Lessing's Laocoon as a Prelude to Romanticism
Image and Phantasm: Wackenroder's Herzensergießungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders, Tieck's Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen, and the Emergence of the Romantic Paradigm Wanderungen, and the Emergence of the
Symbol and Allegory: Clemens Brentano's Godwi
Sublimity and Beauty: Caspar David Friedrich and Joseph Anton Koch
Light and Dark: The Paintings of Philipp Otto Runge
Absolution and Contradiction: Confrontations with Art in Heinrich von Kleist's "Die heilige Cäcilie oder Die Gewalt der Musik" and "Der Findling" Findling"
Self and Other: Joseph von Eichendorff's Das Marmorbild
Conclusion
Notes
Works Cited
Index

About the author

BRAD PRAGER is Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Product details

• Authors: Brad Prager, Professor Brad (Series Editor) Prager
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2007
• EAN: 9781571133410
• ISBN: 978-1-57113-341-0
• No. of pages: 295
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 225 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 553 g
• Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; Studies in German Literature,; Studies in German Literature L
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history