Mountains and the German Mind (eBook, PDF)

Translations from Gessner to Messner, 1541-2009
Redaktion: Ireton, Sean M.; Schaumann, Caroline / Illustrator: Egan, Orfhlaith

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Mountains have occupied a central place in German, Swiss, and Austrian intellectual culture for centuries. This volume offers the first scholarly English translations of thirteen key texts from the Germanophone tradition of engagement with mountains. The selected texts span over 450 years, ranging from the early modern period to the postmodern era, and encompass several discursive modes of the mountain experience including geographical descriptions, philosophical meditations, aesthetic deliberations, and autobiographical climbing narratives. Well-known figures covered in this translational sourcebook include Conrad Gessner, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer, G.W.F. Hegel, Alexander von Humboldt, Georg Simmel, Leni Riefenstahl, and Reinhold Messner. Each text is accompanied by a critical introduction that places the translated text within a broader cultural context. The dual translational-interpretational approach offered in this volume is intended to stimulate new international and interdisciplinary dialogue on the cultural history of mountains and mountaineering.

Contributors: Paul Buchholz, Sean Franzel, Gundolf Graml, Kamaal Haque, Harald Höbusch, Dan Hooley, Sean Ireton, Jennifer Jenkins, Jens Klenner, Martina Kopf, Seth Peabody, Caroline Schaumann, Christoph Weber, Wilfried Wilms.

Sean Ireton (University of Missouri) and Caroline Schaumann (Emory University) are also the editors of Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century (2012).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wits University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781787448735
• Artikelnr.: 63205344

Autorenporträt

Edited by Sean Ireton and Caroline Schaumann

Inhaltsangabe

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