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The Lake (der See) and the Pond (der Weiher) in High Biedermeier Poetry
- Authors: Seifert E.I.1,2
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Affiliations:
- Russian State University for the Humanities
- Moscow State Linguistic University
- Issue: No 9(903) (2025)
- Pages: 105-112
- Section: Literary criticism
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/2542-2197/article/view/342126
- ID: 342126
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Abstract
The aim of the work is to understand the depiction of lakes and ponds by the Biedermeier masters. The study is conducted on the material of the poetry of the High Biedermeier masters A. von Droste-Hülshoff, E. Mörike and J.W. von Scheffel, who show a great interest in lakes and ponds as locus amoenus. Using the structural-descriptive method, the article analyzes the role and functions of the depiction of lakes and ponds in the High Biedermeier. In the overwhelming majority of cases, these water loci direct the genre mode of the High Biedermeier work to the idyllic. In the case of rivalry of genres, when a pond or lake appears in a High Biedermeier poem, it is freed from the influence of a sad elegy and an anxious ballad and resorts to feeding on the dominants of optimistic genres – a poetic prayer and a fragment. The scientific novelty also lies in the fact that the article is the first to conduct a review comparison of the motifs and images of lakes and ponds in Russian and German literature.
About the authors
Elena Ivanovna Seifert
Russian State University for the Humanities; Moscow State Linguistic University
Author for correspondence.
Email: elena_seifert@list.ru
Doctor of Philology (Dr. habil.), Professor of Russian State University for the Humanities; Leading Researcher of Moscow State Linguistic University
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