BRAD PRAGER is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair of Humanities, Professor of German, and Professor of Film Studies at the University of Missouri.

• IntroductionInterior and Exterior: G. E. Lessing's Laocoon as a Prelude to RomanticismImage and Phantasm: Wackenroder's Herzensergießungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders, Tieck's Franz Sternbald's Wanderungen, and the Emergence of the Romantic ParadigmSymbol and Allegory: Clemens Brentano's GodwiSublimity and Beauty: Caspar David Friedrich and Joseph Anton KochLight and Dark: The Paintings of Philipp Otto RungeAbsolution 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 MarmorbildConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

In this lucidly written and well-researched volume, Brad Prager investigates the thematization of visual perception in canonical works of the Romantic period (texts by Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Ludwig Tieck, Clemens Brentano, Heinrich von Kleist, and Joseph von Eichendorff) and in relation to various Romantic painters (Caspar David Friedrich, Joseph Anton Koch, and Phillip Otto Runge).... , Prager's book is a thought-provoking re-reading of Romantic narratives which demonstrates the continuing necessity of philosophically informed close readings in the study of culture.

BRAD PRAGER is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair of Humanities, Professor of German, and Professor of Film Studies at the University of Missouri.

• IntroductionInterior and Exterior: G. E. Lessing's Laocoon as a Prelude to RomanticismImage and Phantasm: Wackenroder's Herzensergießungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders, Tieck's Franz Sternbald's Wanderungen, and the Emergence of the Romantic ParadigmSymbol and Allegory: Clemens Brentano's GodwiSublimity and Beauty: Caspar David Friedrich and Joseph Anton KochLight and Dark: The Paintings of Philipp Otto RungeAbsolution 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 MarmorbildConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

In this lucidly written and well-researched volume, Brad Prager investigates the thematization of visual perception in canonical works of the Romantic period (texts by Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Ludwig Tieck, Clemens Brentano, Heinrich von Kleist, and Joseph von Eichendorff) and in relation to various Romantic painters (Caspar David Friedrich, Joseph Anton Koch, and Phillip Otto Runge).... , Prager's book is a thought-provoking re-reading of Romantic narratives which demonstrates the continuing necessity of philosophically informed close readings in the study of culture.

BRAD PRAGER is the Catherine Paine Middlebush Chair of Humanities, Professor of German, and Professor of Film Studies at the University of Missouri.

• IntroductionInterior and Exterior: G. E. Lessing's Laocoon as a Prelude to RomanticismImage and Phantasm: Wackenroder's Herzensergießungen eines kunstliebenden Klosterbruders, Tieck's Franz Sternbald's Wanderungen, and the Emergence of the Romantic ParadigmSymbol and Allegory: Clemens Brentano's GodwiSublimity and Beauty: Caspar David Friedrich and Joseph Anton KochLight and Dark: The Paintings of Philipp Otto RungeAbsolution 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 MarmorbildConclusionNotesWorks CitedIndex

In this lucidly written and well-researched volume, Brad Prager investigates the thematization of visual perception in canonical works of the Romantic period (texts by Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder, Ludwig Tieck, Clemens Brentano, Heinrich von Kleist, and Joseph von Eichendorff) and in relation to various Romantic painters (Caspar David Friedrich, Joseph Anton Koch, and Phillip Otto Runge).... , Prager's book is a thought-provoking re-reading of Romantic narratives which demonstrates the continuing necessity of philosophically informed close readings in the study of culture.