Year: 2026
Type: article
Abstract: This article examines the artistic function of landscape in Romantic and Realist literature. It focuses on two models of depicting nature: nature as a "mirror of the soul," reflecting the protagonist's inner state, and nature as a setting, a socially and historically defined space. In Romantic aesthetics, landscape often serves as a form of expression for emotional conflict, a yearning for the ideal, loneliness, and a yearning for the infinite. In Realist literature, nature retains psychological significance but simultaneously acquires objectivity, social conditioning, and the function of an objective backdrop. A comparison of Romantic and Realist landscapes reveals a shift in artistic views of humanity: from the exceptional individual, set against the world, to the individual embedded within a historical, everyday, and social milieu.
Author: Nargis Ibragimova
Institution: Kimyo International University in Tashkent
Language: English
Subfield: Literature and Literary Theory
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7220273557