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Title Mountains and the German mind : translations from Gessner to Messner, 1541-2009 / edited by Sean Ireton and Caroline Schaumann
Published Rochester, New York : Camden House, 2020

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Description 1 online resource
Series Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture
Studies in German literature, linguistics, and culture.
Contents 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
Summary 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
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 16, 2020)
Subject German literature -- Translations into English
Mountains -- Literary collections
Mountaineering -- Literary collections
European history.
Environmentalist thought & ideology.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
German literature
Mountaineering
Mountains
Genre/Form Literary collections
Translations
Form Electronic book
Author Ireton, Sean Moore, editor.
Schaumann, Caroline, editor.
ISBN 1787448738
9781787448735