Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 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. G. Sebald's magic mountains / Scott Denham
  • Conflicting ascents: inscriptions, cartographies, and disappearance in Christoph Ransmayr's der Fliegende Berg / Olaf Berwald.