Dreams, Hallucinations, Dragons, the Unconscious, and Ekphrasis in German Romanticism: Ludwig Tieck's Skillful Study of the Mind

ISBN-13: 9781433141577 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 164 str.

Joseph D. Rockelmann

Opis

This study posits that ekphrasis and dream interpretation are similar due to both analyzing a visual image and attempting to translate the visual into the verbal in order to gain a better and more complete understanding of it.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - Introduction - Andrew Becker's Four Levels of Ekphrasis in Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen - Dynamic and Static Ekphrasis in "Die Gemälde" - Palaces, Sculptures, Dreams, and Hallucinations in "Die Freunde" (1797), "Der Runenberg" (1804), "Die Elfen" (1812), "Liebeszauber" (1812), and "Das Alte Buch und die Reise in's Blaue Hinein" (1834) - Conclusion.

O autorze

Joseph D. Rockelmann (B.A., Auburn University; M.A., Purdue University; M.B.A., Roosevelt University; Ph.D., Purdue University) is Visiting Assistant Professor of German at Hampden-Sydney College. His research interests are German Romanticism and Ludwig Tieck, Ekphrasis studies, visual studies and cognition, and psychopathology in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century German literature. He is currently working on a book project that is examining the role dreams play in G. E. Lessing's dramas.