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  • Writing the Mountains: The Alpine Form in German Fiction

    Writing the Mountains by Klenner, Jens;

    The Alpine Form in German Fiction

    Series: New Directions in German Studies;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
    • Date of Publication 13 June 2024
    • Number of Volumes Hardback

    • ISBN 9798765106501
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages208 pages
    • Size 220x140x16 mm
    • Weight 380 g
    • Language English
    • 561

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    Writing the Mountains reconsiders the role of mountains in German language fiction from 1800 to the present and argues that in a range of texts, from E.T.A. Hoffmann's ""Die Bergwerke zu Falun"" (1819) to Elfriede Jelinek's Die Kinder der Toten (1995) and beyond, mountains serve as dynamic spaces of material change that generate aesthetic and narrative innovation. In contrast to dominant critical approaches to the Alpine landscape in literature, in which mountain ranges often features as passive settings, or which trace the influence of geographical and geological sciences in literary productions, this study argues for the dynamic role in literature of presumably rigid mineral structures.

    In German-language fiction after 1800, the counter-intuitive topology of rocky mountain ranges and unfathomable subterranean depths of the Alpine imaginary functions as a space of exception which appears to reconfirm and radically challenge the foundations of Enlightenment thought. Writing the Mountains reads the mountain range as a rigid yet permeable liminal space. Within this zone, semiotic orders are unsettled, as is the division between organic and inorganic, between the human and the other.

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    Table of Contents:

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    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 Bï¿1⁄2chner's Lenz
    Arrivals
    Windows to the World
    Return to the Mountains
    A Lethal Gaze
    Medusa in the Mountains
    4. Folded Mountains-Paul Celan's ""Gesprï¿1⁄2ch 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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