Heights of Reflection (EPDF) von Sean M. Ireton

Examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.

Introduction: The Meaning of Mountains: Geology, History, Culture - Sean Ireton and Caroline Schaumann
Prelude: Classical Mountain Landscapes and the Language of Ascent - Dan Hooley
Terra Incognita? Mountains in Medieval and Early Modern German Literature - Albrecht Classen
From Meadows to Mountaintops: Albrecht von Haller's"Die Alpen" - Caroline Schaumann
Geo-Poetics: The Alpine Sublime in Art and Literature, 1779-1860 - Anthony Ozturk
Time and Narrative in the Mountain Sublime around 1800 - Sean Franzel
Faust's Mountains: An Ecocritical Reading of Goethe's Tragedy and Science - Heather I. Sullivan
Spectacular Scenery and Slippery Descents: Narrating the Mountains of Tropical Polynesia - Sabine Wilke
Fascinating Voids: Alexander von Humboldt and the Myth of Chimborazo - Oliver Lubrich
From Eros to Thanatos: Hiking and Spelunking in Ludwig Tieck's Der Runenberg - Peter Arnds
Geology, Mountaineering, and Self-Formation in Adalbert Stifter's Der Nachsommer - Sean Ireton
"An Apparition from Another World" -- The Mountains of the Moon and Kilimanjaro from the Perspective of Nineteenth-Century Germany - Christof Hamman
Leaving the Summit Behind: Tracking Biographical and Philosophical Pathways in Richard Strauss's Eine Alpensinfonie - Peter Höyng
Elevation and Insight: Thomas Mann's Der Zauberberg - Johannes Turk
"The Essence of the Alpine World Is Struggle": Strategies of Gesundung in Arnold Fanck's Early Mountain Films - Wilfried Wilms PhD
"Mountain of Destiny": The Filmic Legacy of Nanga Parbat - Harald Hoebusch
Spatial Orientation and Embodied Transcendence in Werner Herzog's Mountain Climbing Films - Roger F. Cook
W. G. Sebald's Magic Mountains - Scott Denham
Conflicting Ascents: Inscriptions, Cartographies, andDisappearance in Christoph Ransmayr's Der fliegende Berg - Olaf Berwald
Works Cited
Notes on the Contributors
Index