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The Reptonian turn: reassessing landscape design in Goethe's Elective Affinities

The Reptonian turn: reassessing landscape design in Goethe's Elective Affinities The Reptonian turn: reassessing landscape design in Goethe’s Elective Affinities ann leone The four protagonists of Goethe’s enigmatic novel of 1809, Die Wahlverwandtschaften river, form two distinctly separate entities that appear never bridged over, [Elective Affinities], occupy themselves by transforming an old Renaissance garden directly connected or harmoniously integrated’. Gail Finney interprets the into a landscape park in the new English fashion. There is general agreement that garden design efforts of the novel’s protagonists as hubris: ‘The four friends’ their landscaping, which dominates Part One of the novel, holds the key to an illusory attempts to ‘‘rival’’ nature with a garden, which is always an artful understanding of the novel as a whole and that this work represents the most creation, is symptomatic of their habit of blurring the lines between the conspicuous and sophisticated literary monument to the fascination throughout human or artificial and the natural realm’. the German lands with ‘Landschafts-Gartenkunst’ [landscape garden art]. These and other critical readings address the landscape design as a failure, and The most widely shared view appears to be that certain landscape features, therefore as a category of signs and signifiers supplementing all the other their conception as well as the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes Taylor & Francis

The Reptonian turn: reassessing landscape design in Goethe's Elective Affinities

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The Reptonian turn: reassessing landscape design in Goethe’s Elective Affinities ann leone The four protagonists of Goethe’s enigmatic novel of 1809, Die Wahlverwandtschaften river, form two distinctly separate entities that appear never bridged over, [Elective Affinities], occupy themselves by transforming an old Renaissance garden directly connected or harmoniously integrated’. Gail Finney interprets the into a landscape park in the new English fashion. There is general agreement that garden design efforts of the novel’s protagonists as hubris: ‘The four friends’ their landscaping, which dominates Part One of the novel, holds the key to an illusory attempts to ‘‘rival’’ nature with a garden, which is always an artful understanding of the novel as a whole and that this work represents the most creation, is symptomatic of their habit of blurring the lines between the conspicuous and sophisticated literary monument to the fascination throughout human or artificial and the natural realm’. the German lands with ‘Landschafts-Gartenkunst’ [landscape garden art]. These and other critical readings address the landscape design as a failure, and The most widely shared view appears to be that certain landscape features, therefore as a category of signs and signifiers supplementing all the other their conception as well as the

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Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes – Taylor & Francis

Published: Mar 25, 2011

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