Aesthetic vision and German romanticism : writing images / Brad Prager.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prager, Brad, 1971-

Series:

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture (Unnumbered)

Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German literature--18th century--History and criticism.

German literature.

German literature--19th century--History and criticism.

Aesthetics, German--18th century.

Aesthetics, German.

Aesthetics, German--19th century.

Romanticism--Germany--History--18th century.

Romanticism.

Romanticism--Germany--History--19th century.

Imagery (Psychology) in literature.

History.

Germany.

Physical Description:

viii, 287 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2007.

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

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"

Self and other: Joseph von Eichendorff's Das Marmorbild.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-275) and index.

ISBN:

1571133410

9781571133410

OCLC:

70884999