Mountains and the German mind : translations from Gessner to Messner, 1541-2009 /

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Mountains and the German mind : translations from Gessner to Messner, 1541-2009 /

Table of Contents: “…Hegel, Travel Diary Through the Bernese Alps (1796) -- Sean Franzel; Alexander von Humboldt, Failed Ascents of Antisana and Chimborazo -- Two Excerpts from Travel Diaries (1802) -- Caroline Schaumann; Hermann von Barth, From the Northern Limestone Alps (1874) -- Excerpts -- Sean Ireton; Georg Simmel, "Alpine Journeys" (1895) and "On the Aesthetics of the Alps" (1911) -- Jens Klenner; Eduard Pichl, "Autobiographical Sketch" (1914) and "The Alpine Association and German Purity" (1923) -- Wilfried Wilms; Leni Riefenstahl, Struggle in Snow and Ice (1933) -- Excerpts -- Seth Peabody; Arnold Fanck, He Directed Glaciers, Storms and Avalanches: A Film Pioneer Recounts (1973) -- Excerpts -- Kamaal Haque; Hans Ertl, My Wild Thirties (1982), Chapter 7: "The Film Gets Colorized -- But the Himalaya Still Looks Bleak" -- Harald Höbusch; Max Peintner, "The Dam" (1981) -- Paul Buchholz; Reinhold Messner, Westwall: The Abyss Principle (2009) -- Excerpts -- Gundolf Graml; Works Cited; Index…”
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Heights of reflection : mountains in the German imagination from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…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 Ḧöyng -- 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. …”
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Heights of reflection : mountains in the German imagination from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…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. …”
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