Heights of reflection mountains in the German imagination from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century
Mountains have always stirred the human imagination, playing a crucial role in the cultural evolution of peoples around the globe and becoming infused with meaning in the process. Beyond their geographical-geological significance, mountains affect the topography of the mind, whether as objects of pe...
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Boydell & Brewer
2012
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Terra incognita? Mountains in medieval and early modern German literature / Albrecht Classen
- From meadows to mountaintops: Albrecht von Haller's "Die Alpen" / Caroline Schaumann
- Interlude: geo-poetics: the Alpine sublime in art and literature, 1779-1860 / Anthony Ozturk
- Time and narrative in the mountain sublime around 1800 / Sean Franzel
- Faust's mountains: an ecocritical reading of Goethe's tragedy and science / Heather I. Sullivan
- Spectacular scenery and slippery descents: narrating the mountains of tropical Polynesia / Sabine Wilke / Fascinating voids: Alexander von Humboldt and the myth of chimborazo / Oliver Lubrich
- From eros to Thanatos: hiking and spelunking in Ludwig Tieck's Der Runenberg / Peter Arnds
- Geology, mountaineering, and self-formation in Adalbert Stifter's der Nachsommer / Sean Ireton
- "An apparition from Another World": the mountains of the moon and Kilimanjaro from the perspective of nineteenth-century Germany / Christof Hamann
- Leaving the summit behind: tracking biographical and philosophical pathways in Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie / Peter Hö̈yng
- Elevation and insight: Thomas Mann's der Zauberberg
- Johannes Türk
- "Essence of the Alpine world is struggle": strategies of gesundung in Arnold Fanck's early mountain films
- Wilfried Wilms
- "Mountain of destiny": the filmic legacy of Nanga Parbat / Harald Höbusch
- Spatial orientation and embodied transcendence in Werner Herzog's mountain climbing films / Roger Cook
- W.G. Sebald's magic mountains / Scott Denham
- Conflicting ascents: inscriptions, cartographies, and disappearance in Christoph Ransmayr's der Fliegende Berg / Olaf Berwald