The Landscape Of New Romanticism

Siddhartha--Eine indische Dichtung is one of Hermann Hesse's most well-known work.In Siddhartha,Hesse attempted to answer his questions about the world by using parabelism,that is,he used the times of ancient Indian mythology as the background of the novel.However,Siddhartha was not simply a rewriting work of an ancient myth.In this novel,through a young man's spiritual growth,Hesse made a consideration on the human condition of Europe and the entire world in the early 20 th century.This thesis will take the landscape in Hermann Hesse's Siddhartha as the object of study.It is not an empirical study of the landscape in the perspective of natural geography,but is intended to analyze the imagination and construction of the landscape from literary texts and exam the specific landscape concepts in the text and people's specific perception patterns,in order to explore Hesse's change of natural concepts as a new romanticism and the last knight of the romanticism in the text.The first chapter will introduce the history how the landscape changes from the background and the accessory of the performance object to the performance subject.The detachment of landscape from nature is not a process of natural development and transformation.It has its own pedigree,distributed in the tension between religion and art,between object and subject,between politics and aesthetics.The second chapter will introduce the life of Hesse,his spiritual origins,and the tradition of German Orientalism which is closely related to the German romanticism in the description of Hesse's oriental styles.The third chapter will discuss the core symbol in Siddhartha,the river.The experience of rivers as a kind of landscape implies the development and change of the concept of nature in the classic and new romanticism.It is closely related to the problems of time,existence,and integrity.This is exactly the extension and response of the Hesse of the new romanticism to the German romantic traditionaround 1800.It is through the writing of the river landscape that Hesse put this ever-present confrontation and contradiction in the fusion of two dialectical coexistences of Chinese ethics,and finally reaches the unity of reunification.