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Works CitedAbbott, H. Porter. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.Addison, Joseph. “Dream of the Region of Liberty.” Tatler, 20 April 1710, 191–92.Adorno, Theodor. Ästhetische Theorie. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1973.———. “Richard Strauss: Zum hundertsten Geburtstag.” In Gesammelte Schriften, edited by Rolf Tiedemann, 16: 165–606. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1997. In English, “Richard Strauss: Born June 11, 1864.” Translated by Samuel Weber and Shierry Weber. Perspectives of New Music4, no. 1 (1965): 14–32, and no. 2 (1965): 111–29.Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes. Directed by Werner Herzog. Vienna: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, 1972.Albritton, Claude C. The Abyss of Time: Changing Conceptions of the Earth’s Antiquity after the Sixteenth Century. San Francisco: Freeman, Cooper, 1980.Ames, Eric. “Herzog, Landscape, and Documentary.” Cinema Journal 48, no. 2 (Winter 2009): 49–69.Amstädter, Rainer. Der Alpinismus: Kultur — Organisation — Politik. Vienna: WUV-Universitätsverlag, 1996.Anderson, Joseph D. The Reality of Illusion: An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Film Theory. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996.Arnold, David. The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800–1856. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2006.Arx, Bernhard von. Karl Stauffer und Lydia Welter-Escher:Chronik eines Skandals. Bern: Zytglogge, 1991.Asher, Lyell. “Petrarch at the Peak of Fame.” PMLA 108, no. 5 (1993): 1050–63.Ashfield, Andrew, and Peter De Bolla. “Introduction.” In The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory,edited by Ashfield and De Bolla, 1–16. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.Aspetsberger, Friedbert, ed. Der BergFilm, 1920–1940. Innsbruck: Studien-Verlag, 2002.
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Works CitedAbbott, H. Porter. The Cambridge Introduction to Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2002.Addison, Joseph. “Dream of the Region of Liberty.” Tatler, 20 April 1710, 191–92.Adorno, Theodor. Ästhetische Theorie. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1973.———. “Richard Strauss: Zum hundertsten Geburtstag.” In Gesammelte Schriften, edited by Rolf Tiedemann, 16: 165–606. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1997. In English, “Richard Strauss: Born June 11, 1864.” Translated by Samuel Weber and Shierry Weber. Perspectives of New Music4, no. 1 (1965): 14–32, and no. 2 (1965): 111–29.Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes. Directed by Werner Herzog. Vienna: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion, 1972.Albritton, Claude C. The Abyss of Time: Changing Conceptions of the Earth’s Antiquity after the Sixteenth Century. San Francisco: Freeman, Cooper, 1980.Ames, Eric. “Herzog, Landscape, and Documentary.” Cinema Journal 48, no. 2 (Winter 2009): 49–69.Amstädter, Rainer. Der Alpinismus: Kultur — Organisation — Politik. Vienna: WUV-Universitätsverlag, 1996.Anderson, Joseph D. The Reality of Illusion: An Ecological Approach to Cognitive Film Theory. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1996.Arnold, David. The Tropics and the Traveling Gaze: India, Landscape, and Science, 1800–1856. Seattle: U of Washington P, 2006.Arx, Bernhard von. Karl Stauffer und Lydia Welter-Escher:Chronik eines Skandals. Bern: Zytglogge, 1991.Asher, Lyell. “Petrarch at the Peak of Fame.” PMLA 108, no. 5 (1993): 1050–63.Ashfield, Andrew, and Peter De Bolla. “Introduction.” In The Sublime: A Reader in British Eighteenth-Century Aesthetic Theory,edited by Ashfield and De Bolla, 1–16. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.Aspetsberger, Friedbert, ed. Der BergFilm, 1920–1940. Innsbruck: Studien-Verlag, 2002.
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction: The Meaning of Mountains: Geology, History, Culture 1
  5. Prelude: Classical Mountain Landscapes and the Language of Ascent 20
  6. Part I: First Forays: Mountain Exploration and Celebration from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century
  7. Terra Incognita? Mountains in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature 33
  8. From Meadows to Mountaintops: Albrecht von Haller’s “Die Alpen” 57
  9. Interlude: Geo-Poetics: The Alpine Sublime in Art and Literature, 1779–1860 77
  10. Time and Narrative in the Mountain Sublime around 1800 98
  11. Faust’s Mountains: An Ecocritical Reading of Goethe’s Tragedy and Science 116
  12. Spectacular Scenery and Slippery Descents: Narrating the Mountains of Tropical Polynesia 134
  13. Part II: Beckoning Heights: Summits Near and Far in the Nineteenth Century
  14. Fascinating Voids: Alexander von Humboldt and the Myth of Chimborazo 151
  15. From Eros to Thanatos: Hiking and Spelunking in Ludwig Tieck’s Der Runenberg 176
  16. Geology, Mountaineering, and Self-Formation in Adalbert Stifter’s Der Nachsommer 193
  17. “An Apparition from Another World”: The Mountains of the Moon and Kilimanjaro from the Perspective of Nineteenth-Century Germany 210
  18. Part III: Modern Expeditions and Evocations: Climbing from the Twentieth into the Twenty-First Century
  19. Leaving the Summit Behind: Tracking Biographical and Philosophical Pathways in Richard Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie 229
  20. Elevation and Insight: Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg 248
  21. “The Essence of the Alpine World Is Struggle”: Strategies of Gesundung in Arnold Fanck’s Early Mountain Films 267
  22. “Mountain of Destiny”: The Filmic Legacy of Nanga Parbat 285
  23. Spatial Orientation and Embodied Transcendence in Werner Herzog’s Mountain Climbing Films 302
  24. W. G. Sebald’s Magic Mountains 320
  25. Conflicting Ascents: Inscriptions, Cartographies, and Disappearance in Christoph Ransmayr’s Der fliegende Berg 334
  26. Works Cited 349
  27. Notes on the Contributors 379
  28. Index 385
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Acknowledgments ix
  4. Introduction: The Meaning of Mountains: Geology, History, Culture 1
  5. Prelude: Classical Mountain Landscapes and the Language of Ascent 20
  6. Part I: First Forays: Mountain Exploration and Celebration from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century
  7. Terra Incognita? Mountains in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature 33
  8. From Meadows to Mountaintops: Albrecht von Haller’s “Die Alpen” 57
  9. Interlude: Geo-Poetics: The Alpine Sublime in Art and Literature, 1779–1860 77
  10. Time and Narrative in the Mountain Sublime around 1800 98
  11. Faust’s Mountains: An Ecocritical Reading of Goethe’s Tragedy and Science 116
  12. Spectacular Scenery and Slippery Descents: Narrating the Mountains of Tropical Polynesia 134
  13. Part II: Beckoning Heights: Summits Near and Far in the Nineteenth Century
  14. Fascinating Voids: Alexander von Humboldt and the Myth of Chimborazo 151
  15. From Eros to Thanatos: Hiking and Spelunking in Ludwig Tieck’s Der Runenberg 176
  16. Geology, Mountaineering, and Self-Formation in Adalbert Stifter’s Der Nachsommer 193
  17. “An Apparition from Another World”: The Mountains of the Moon and Kilimanjaro from the Perspective of Nineteenth-Century Germany 210
  18. Part III: Modern Expeditions and Evocations: Climbing from the Twentieth into the Twenty-First Century
  19. Leaving the Summit Behind: Tracking Biographical and Philosophical Pathways in Richard Strauss’s Eine Alpensinfonie 229
  20. Elevation and Insight: Thomas Mann’s Der Zauberberg 248
  21. “The Essence of the Alpine World Is Struggle”: Strategies of Gesundung in Arnold Fanck’s Early Mountain Films 267
  22. “Mountain of Destiny”: The Filmic Legacy of Nanga Parbat 285
  23. Spatial Orientation and Embodied Transcendence in Werner Herzog’s Mountain Climbing Films 302
  24. W. G. Sebald’s Magic Mountains 320
  25. Conflicting Ascents: Inscriptions, Cartographies, and Disappearance in Christoph Ransmayr’s Der fliegende Berg 334
  26. Works Cited 349
  27. Notes on the Contributors 379
  28. Index 385
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