Author : Sheila Margaret Benn
Release : 1990
Genre : Aesthetics, German
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Pre-Romantic Attitudes to Landscape in the Writings of Friedrich Schiller - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pre-Romantic Attitudes to Landscape in the Writings of Friedrich Schiller write by Sheila Margaret Benn. This book was released on 1990. Pre-Romantic Attitudes to Landscape in the Writings of Friedrich Schiller available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. My aim is to re-evaluate the traditional image of Schiller as hostile towards Nature. Whilst many works have been devoted to Goethe's attitude towards Nature, it has frequently been assumed that Schiller was merely an inward-looking philosopher who had no interest in the external world. This traditional view fails, however, to take account of Schiller's self-confessed love of Nature and of his direct experience of the revolution in attitudes towards Nature which occurred during his lifetime. I examine how the modern pre-Romantic feeling for Nature, which manifested itself in an enthusiasm for a Rousseauian 'Return to Nature' and for English gardens, exotic landscapes and sublime mountain wildernesses, exercised a profound influence on his thought, permeating his philosophical essays, plays and poems in all periods of his writing. -- Having established that the traditional view of Schiller as hostile towards Nature arises in large part from the polarised image of Goethe as Nature-lover and Schiller as ivory tower aesthete, I investigate the landscape forms which were the focus of the new sensitivity towards Nature. I concentrate in particular on the manner in which these forms were portrayed in literary works by Schiller's contemporaries so that, in subsequent chapters, the extent of his adherence to the conventional representation of these landscapes can be established. I then detail his general response to the new feeling for Nature and his response to the particular landscape forms favoured by the Moderns: the English garden, the exotic and the natural sublime. -- I examine how Schiller's view of the times and in particular of the ills of modern society determines his interpretation of these landscape forms.