Aesthetic vision and German romanticism: writing images

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.