Eastern and Azerbaijani motifs in the creative work of the 19th century European romantics (Nizami, Vazeh, Bakikhanov and Lada-Zablotsky, Schiller, Mitskevich)

Abstract

Experts link the increase of European writers’ interest in the East in the late 18th and early 19th centuries with the French bourgeois revolution in 1789 and note that they were very upset when they noticed that Napoleon and others benefited from this revolution, which Europe’s advanced creative intellectuals had high expectations for. As a result, these intellectuals tended to show reality in their works as they wanted to see it rather than as it was. However, since no any specific theoretical program of the romanticism has been formed in comparison to the classicism, the problem of features of the romanticism has long been discussed.
In contrast to enlightenment literature, the article addresses the fallacy of calling romanticism as a literary movement that breaks all canons of creativity via real examples. When we consider the differences between the romantic method and the romantic movement, we can see that the creative elements of the first one have existed since ancient times. The nineteenth-century European romantics’ interest in this field is evident from this perspective.
In the article it is noted that German orientalists has a great role in popularizing Eastern culture in Europe. First, readers learned about artists like Nizami, Khagani, Nasimi, Fuzuli, Vagif, and Vazeh via German orientalists’ publications and translations. In this regard, although Mirza Shafi Vazeh was the most popular of the Azerbaijani poets among the Baltic peoples, A.Bakikhanov and M.F.Akhundov were considered also well-known European authors.
The influence of Azerbaijani M.Topchubashov, together with A.Khodzko is noted by researchers studying the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz’s interest in the East.
Much study has been done on the importance of Oriental motifs in the work by European writers, but
there is still much more to be done.

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