Reception of Goethe’s Philosophical Views in Poem by Siegfried Lipiner “Liberated Prometheus”
https://doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2022-11-5-320-335
Abstract
The influence of Goethe’s work on Lipiner’s lyric-philosophical poem “Liberated Prometheus” is considered. Scientific novelty is due to the fact that at the moment there are practically no studies about Lipiner in domestic literary criticism. The relevance is seen in the receptive approach to the analysis of Lipiner’s work, as well as in the philosophical perspective of the modern problem of interpreting a literary text. The philosophical views of Goethe, reflected in the poem “Liberated Prometheus”, are considered in detail in connection with the literary motif of dreams in the spirit of the philosophy of solipsism. A review of European literary sources reflecting this motive is carried out. Attention is paid to biographical and critical material about Lipiner’s work, which makes it possible to prove the impact of Goethe’s work on the poem under study. The interpretation of Goethe’s pantheistic ideas in Lipiner’s poem is studied, among other things, within the framework of the Promethean mythology. The correlation and interrelation of the main philosophical components in Lipiner’s text: solipsism and pantheism are investigated. Parallels are drawn between separate textual fragments of the tragedy “Faust” and the poem “Freed Prometheus”, the influence of the named philosophical concepts of Goethe on the work of Lipiner is proved.
About the Author
A. Е. Kachorovskaya
The Herzen State Pedagogical University of Russia
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Anna E. Kachorovskaya, PhD in Philology, Associate Professor Departments of German and Romance Languages for Professional Communication
St. Petersburg
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Kachorovskaya A.Е. Reception of Goethe’s Philosophical Views in Poem by Siegfried Lipiner “Liberated Prometheus”. Nauchnyi dialog. 2022;11(5):320-335. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.24224/2227-1295-2022-11-5-320-335
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