"Writing the Mountains reveals how landscape and discourses of environmental formation impress themselves on the literary imagination and argues that mountains serve as dynamic spaces of material change that generate new aesthetic and narrative forms. Through close readings of several canonical works by German, Austrian, and Swiss writers in which the mountains are depicted as unknowable, labyrinthine, or mercurial, Klenner uncovers the surprising transformations that landscape and the material environment can enact on the subjects within a story and how that story is told. Writing the…mehr
"Writing the Mountains reveals how landscape and discourses of environmental formation impress themselves on the literary imagination and argues that mountains serve as dynamic spaces of material change that generate new aesthetic and narrative forms. Through close readings of several canonical works by German, Austrian, and Swiss writers in which the mountains are depicted as unknowable, labyrinthine, or mercurial, Klenner uncovers the surprising transformations that landscape and the material environment can enact on the subjects within a story and how that story is told. Writing the Mountains claims that the environment's mutability in fact demands a poetics that can account for shifting forms"--
Acknowledgments Note on Translation 1. Mountains Transformed-Towards an Alpine Aesthetic 1779-No Human Eye Could Do it Justice Mountains at Rest? Kant and the Sublime Georg Simmel and The Resistance of Mountains Shifting Forms 2. Figures from Mines-E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Die Bergwerke zu Falun" 1720-Summer Source Material An Aesthetic Existence A Task for Poets An Empty Cipher Inversion, Transformations, Transitions 3. Lost in the Mountains-Perspective and Displacement in Georg Büchner's Lenz Arrivals Windows to the World Return to the Mountains A Lethal Gaze Medusa in the Mountains 4. Folded Mountains-Paul Celan's "Gespräch im Gebirg" Mountains Vanished August 1959-Reading Leibniz Leaving for the Mountains Wordscapes The Folded Eye 5. Liquid Mountains-Elfriede Jelinek's Die Kinder der Toten Mountain Graves Historical Matters Into the Mountains Metamorphoses-Die Murie. Die Furie Coda Mountains Immaterial Bibliography Index
Acknowledgments Note on Translation 1. Mountains Transformed-Towards an Alpine Aesthetic 1779-No Human Eye Could Do it Justice Mountains at Rest? Kant and the Sublime Georg Simmel and The Resistance of Mountains Shifting Forms 2. Figures from Mines-E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Die Bergwerke zu Falun" 1720-Summer Source Material An Aesthetic Existence A Task for Poets An Empty Cipher Inversion, Transformations, Transitions 3. Lost in the Mountains-Perspective and Displacement in Georg Büchner's Lenz Arrivals Windows to the World Return to the Mountains A Lethal Gaze Medusa in the Mountains 4. Folded Mountains-Paul Celan's "Gespräch im Gebirg" Mountains Vanished August 1959-Reading Leibniz Leaving for the Mountains Wordscapes The Folded Eye 5. Liquid Mountains-Elfriede Jelinek's Die Kinder der Toten Mountain Graves Historical Matters Into the Mountains Metamorphoses-Die Murie. Die Furie Coda Mountains Immaterial Bibliography Index
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