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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.

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.

• 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.