The Draw of the Alps: Alpine Summits and Borderlands in Modern German-speaking Culture

Published by De Gruyter 2023

The Draw of the Alps

Alpine Summits and Borderlands in Modern German-speaking Culture

Edited by: Richard McClelland

Volume 36 in the series Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111150536

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About this book

The Alps have exerted a hold over the German cultural imagination throughout the modern period, enthralling writers, artists, philosophers, scientists, and tourists alike. The Draw of the Alps interrogates the dynamics of this fascination. Though philosophical and aesthetic responses to Alpine space have shifted over time, the Alps continue to captivate at an individual and collective level. This has resulted in myriad cultural engagements with Alpine space, as this interdisciplinary volume attests. Literature, photography, and philosophy continue to engage with the Alps as a place in which humans pursue their cognitive and aesthetic limits. At the same time, individuals engage physically with the alpine environment, whether as visitors through the well-established leisure industry, as enthusiasts of extreme sports, or as residents who feel the acute end of social and environmental change. Taking a transnational view of Alpine space, the volume demonstrates that the Alps are not geographically peripheral to the nation-state but are a vibrant locus of modern cultural production. As The Draw of the Alps attests, the Alps are nothing less than a crucible in which understandings of what it means to be human have been forged.

Author / Editor information

Dr Richard McClelland, University of Bristol, United Kingdom.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
The Draw of the Alps Richard McClelland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: Constructing the Alps
Connecting Transnationalization and the Mnemotope of “the Pariah”: The Alps as Border and Contact Zone in Ferdinand von Saar’s Die Steinklopfer (The Stone Breakers, 1873) Helen Moll Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
Setting the Scene: Tourist Infrastructure, Landscape, and Literature in the Swiss Alps from the 1880s to 1930s Seán M. Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
Constructing the Alps: Perspectives on the Perception of the Alps by the Tyrolean Anti-Transit Movement Maria Buck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
Shifting Perspectives: Alpine Scenarios in the Work Complex Nach der Natur (Beyond Nature) by Austrian Architectural Photographer Margherita Spiluttini Chris Zintzen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
Part 2: Desire and the Alps
After the Mountain Sublime: Erosion and Catastrophe in Max Frisch’s Der Mensch erscheint im Holozän (Man in the Holocene, 1979) Johannes Wankhammer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
God da Tamangur: An Alpine Landscape of Longing and Loss Richard McClelland Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	141
Walking Away, Going Astray in Alpine Spaces: Homeric Wanderings in Peter Stamm’s Weit über das Land (To the Back of Beyond, 2016) Peter Arnds Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
Part 3: Into the Alps
Crevasses and Magic Mountains: Alpine Discourse in Vicki Baum’s Marion lebt (Marion Alive, 1942) Veronika Hofeneder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Dream, Nightmare and Alpine Fortifications in Christian Kracht’s Alternate History Novel Ich werde hier sein im Sonnenschein und im Schatten (2008) David Anderson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
More than Romantic Scenery: The Contested Alpine Landscape in Raphaela Edelbauer’s Das flüssige Land (The Liquid Land, 2019) Rebecca Wismeg-Kammerlander Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Part 4: Boundaries and the Alps
The Alps as a Site of Boundary Suspension? Wilhelmine von Hillern’s Die Geier-Wally (The Vulture Maiden, 1875) in Deutsche Rundschau Leonie Silber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
At the Limit: Edgework, Ethics and Environment in Paul Preuss’ Theory and Practice of Climbing Jon Hughes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars working in German Studies, literary studies, photography studies, sports and leisure studies and political science
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 270
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 2
- Coloured Illustrations: 3
Keywords: The Alps; Modernity; Austria; Switzerland

eBook

Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783111150536

Hardcover

Published: October 24, 2023
ISBN: 9783111149073