God da Tamangur: An Alpine Landscape of Longing and Loss

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. The Draw of the Alps 1
4. Part 1: Constructing the Alps
5. Connecting Transnationalization and the Mnemotope of “the Pariah”: The Alps as Border and Contact Zone in Ferdinand von Saar’s Die Steinklopfer (The Stone Breakers, 1873) 35
6. Setting the Scene: Tourist Infrastructure, Landscape, and Literature in the Swiss Alps from the 1880s to 1930s 53
7. Constructing the Alps: Perspectives on the Perception of the Alps by the Tyrolean Anti-Transit Movement 87
8. Shifting Perspectives: Alpine Scenarios in the Work Complex Nach der Natur (Beyond Nature) by Austrian Architectural Photographer Margherita Spiluttini 103
9. Part 2: Desire and the Alps
10. After the Mountain Sublime: Erosion and Catastrophe in Max Frisch’s Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän (Man in the Holocene, 1979) 123
11. God da Tamangur: An Alpine Landscape of Longing and Loss 141
12. Walking Away, Going Astray in Alpine Spaces: Homeric Wanderings in Peter Stamm’s Weit über das Land (To the Back of Beyond, 2016) 159
13. Part 3: Into the Alps
14. Crevasses and Magic Mountains: Alpine Discourse in Vicki Baum’s Marion lebt (Marion Alive, 1942) 179
15. Dream, Nightmare and Alpine Fortifications in Christian Kracht’s Alternate History Novel Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten (2008) 189
16. More than Romantic Scenery: The Contested Alpine Landscape in Raphaela Edelbauer’s Das flüssige Land (The Liquid Land, 2019) 205
17. Part 4: Boundaries and the Alps
18. The Alps as a Site of Boundary Suspension? Wilhelmine von Hillern’s Die Geier-Wally (The Vulture Maiden, 1875) in Deutsche Rundschau 221
19. At the Limit: Edgework, Ethics and Environment in Paul Preuss’ Theory and Practice of Climbing 229
20. Bibliography 243
21. About the Authors 261
22. Index 265