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

The first scholarly English translations of thirteen vital texts that elucidate the central role mountains have played across nearly five centuries of Germanophone cultural history.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Ireton, Sean Moore (Editor ), Schaumann, Caroline (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2020.
Colección:Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Temas:
German literature > Translations into English.
Mountains > Literary collections.
Mountaineering > Literary collections.
Montagnes > Anthologies.
European history.
Environmentalist thought & ideology.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
German literature
Mountaineering
Mountains
Literary collections
Translations
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The Changing Mountain Discourses
  • a Germanphone Perspective
  • Sean Ireton and Caroline Schaumann; Conrad Gessner, "Letter to Jacob Vogel on the Admiration of Mountains" (1541) and "Description of Mount Fractus, Commonly Called Mount Pilate" (1555)
  • Dan Hooley; Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, The Natural History of Switzerland (1716)
  • Excerpts
  • Jennifer Jenkins; Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, The Natural History of Switzerland (1716)
  • Excerpts
  • Christoph Weber; Sophie von la Roche, Diary of a Journey Through Switzerland (1787)
  • Excerpts
  • Martina Kopf; G.W.F. 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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