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Der empfindsame Raesoneur: das Klassische in Werthers Naturverständnisстатья
- Автор: Максимов Борис Александрович
- Сборник: Русская германистика. Ежегодник Российского союза германистов
- Том: 16
- Год издания: 2019
- Первая страница: 19
- Последняя страница: 28
- Аннотация: The sensitive reasoner: classical traits in Werther’s view of nature Abstract: The aim of the present article is to explore the controversial human-nature relationships in Goethe’s first novel. Mainly I will focus on the apparent gap between Werther’s (pre-)romantic demands and his classical, quite conventional connection with nature. This ideological discrepancy pervades Sentimentalist-era thinking. One the one hand, Werther is longing for a sensual and emotional merging with nature, for a close and equal relationship with it. Meanwhile his view of nature remains predominantly classical, i.e. anthropo- and logocentric, metaphysical and mechanical in its essence. In particular, he does not perceive nature immediately, because his view is distorted by literary patterns. Werther’s sensory experiences are limited to visual impressions, other senses are not active. That is common in classical tradition, but distinctly different from romantic synaesthesia. Notably, the narrator avoids extended landscape depictions: he mostly substitutes them either with accounts about his own mental and emotional state or with a sort of stage directions and topographical plans. As for his ideological attitudes towards nature, Werther postures himself as a consumer (traveller, painter) enjoing the beauties of the landscape, or as philosophizer indulging in retrospections and in broad generalisations in rural environment, or, finally, as a mild, caring mentor who educates “naïve” and unpretentional creatures. All this attitudes imply a detached and superior point of view, that impedes the intended merging with nature. Key words: Goethe, Werther, sentimentalism, nature, classical tradition
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