Heights of reflection: mountains in the German imagination from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century
2013; Association of College and Research Libraries; Volume: 50; Issue: 07 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5860/choice.50-3732
ISSN1943-5975
Tópico(s)Ecology, Conservation, and Geographical Studies
ResumoIntroduction: Meaning of Mountains: Geology, History, Culture - Caroline Schaumann and Sean Ireton Prelude: Classical Landscapes and the Language of Ascent - Dan Hooley Terra Incognita? Mountains in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature - Albrecht Classen From Meadows to Mountaintops: Albrecht von Haller'sDie Alpen - Caroline Schaumann Geo-Poetics: Alpine Sublime in Art and Literature, 1779-1860 - Anthony Ozturk Time and Narrative in the Sublime around 1800 - Sean Franzel Faust's Mountains: 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 -- Mountains of the Moon and Kilimanjaro from the Perspective of Nineteenth-Century Germany - Christof Hamman Leaving the Summit Behind: Tracking Biographical and Philosophical Pathways in Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie - Peter Hoeyng Elevation and Insight: Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg - Johannes Turk The Essence of the Alpine World Is Struggle: Strategies of Gesundung in Arnold Fanck's Early Films - Wilfried Wilms PhD Mountain of Destiny: Filmic Legacy of Nanga Parbat - Harald Hoebusch Spatial Orientation and Embodied Transcendence in Werner Herzog's Climbing Films - Roger F. Cook W. G. Sebald's Magic Mountains - Scott Denham Conflicting Ascents: Inscriptions, Cartographies, andDisappearance in Christoph Ransmayr's Der fliegende Berg - Olaf Berwald Works Cited Notes on the Contributors Index
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