Aesthetic vision and German romanticism
Subtitle: writing images
By: Brad Prager.
Series: Studies in German literature, linguistics and culture; Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9781571133410
Subjects: German literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; German literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Aesthetics, German -- 18th century; Aesthetics, German -- 19th century; Romanticism -- Germany -- History -- 18th century; Romanticism -- Germany -- History -- 19th century; Imagery (Psychology) in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-275) and index.
Table of contents: title: Interior and exterior: G.E. Lessing's Laocoon as a prelude to romanticism; title: Image and phantasm: Wackenroder's Herzensergiessungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders, Tieck's Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen, and the emergence of the romantic paradigm; title: Symbol and allegory: Clemens Brentano's Godwi; title: Sublimity and beauty: Caspar David Friedrich and Joseph Anton Koch; title: Light and dark: the paintings of Philipp Otto Runge; title: Absolution and contradiction: confrontations with art in Heinrich von Kleist's "Die heilige Cäcilie oder die Gewalt der Musik" and "Der Findling"; title: Self and other: Joseph von Eichendorff's Das Marmorbild.