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The critical endeavor to define the relationship between the verbal and the visual arts commenced in the eighteenth century with Lessing's Laokoön (1766), which sought to discriminate between 'natural' and 'arbitrary' signs. During the Romantic period many of Lessing's aesthetic and semiotic assumptions had been challenged. A greater role was granted to the capacity of imagination to mediate perceptions and ideas and bring word and image into a virtually spontaneous interchange. The attributes of the imagination as developed in English and German Ronaticism constitute the opening section of this volume, and the second section traces the consequences for the relationship between hte 'Sister Arts'. The third section examines two key concepts of Romantic aesthetics, the Picturesque and the Sublime, which stirred profound response among the poets as well as the painters. That poetry should thus find itself in a rivalry with the visual arts gave special impetus to a specific mode of mimesis during the Romantic period, a self-reflexive mode in which the very process of imitation becomes the subject-matter. The fourth section thus investigates ekphrasis, that subspecies of mimesis which involves the imitation of imitation as the poet set out to recreate in words the visual experience of art. The final section is devoted to the particular characteristics of English and German Romanticism as they defined the mode, manner, and style of the period...Back cover.

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