The course aims at investigating the relationship between literature and the figurative arts, between verbal and iconic signs during the German 18th century.
Selection of readings from `Laokoon’: Winckelmann, Lessing, Heinse, Hirt, Goethe.
REFERENCES
- Helmut Pfotenhauer (ed): Frühklassizismus. Position und Opposition: Winckelmann, Mengs, Heinse (Frankfurt M.: 1995).
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: Laokoon (Stuttgart: Reclam,1986).
- Wilhelm Heinse: Ardinghello und die glückseligen Inseln, (Stuttgart: Reclam, 1975).
- Aloys Hirt: Laokoon. In: Die Horen, 3. Jg., 10. Stück 1997, (Darmstadt: 1959), pp. 1-26.
- Johann Wolfgang Goethe: Über Laokoon, in: Id., Ästhetische Schriften 1771-1805, edited by Friedmar Apel, (Frankfurt M.: 1998), pp. 489-500.
Further references will be provided during the course.
Oral and in German language.
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