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

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

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Prager, Brad, 1971- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Rochester, NY : Camden House, 2007.
Series:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
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.
Aesthetics, German
German literature
Imagery (Psychology) in literature
Romanticism
Germany
1700-1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Table of 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.

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