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Examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy,
film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first
century. Mountains have always stirred the human imagination,
playing a crucial role in the cultural evolution of peoples around
the globe and becoming infused with meaning in the process. Beyond
their geographical-geological significance,mountains affect the
topography of the mind, whether as objects of peril or attraction,
of spiritual enlightenment or existential fulfillment, of
philosophical contemplation or aesthetic inspiration. This volume
challenges the oversimplified assumption that human interaction
with mountains is a distinctly modern development, one that began
with the empowerment of the individual in the wake of Enlightenment
rationalism and Romantic subjectivity. These essays by European and
North American scholars examine the lure of mountains in German
literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle
Ages to the present, with a focus on the interaction between humans
and the alpineenvironment. The contributors consider mountains not
as mere symbolic tropes or literary metaphors, but as constituting
a tangible reality that informs the experiences and ideas of
writers, naturalists, philosophers, filmmakers,and composers.
Overall, this volume seeks to provide multiple answers to questions
regarding the cultural significance of mountains as well as the
physical practice of climbing them. Contributors: Peter Arnds, Olaf
Berwald, Albrecht Classen, Roger Cook, Scott Denham, Sean Franzel,
Christof Hamann, Harald Hoebusch, Dan Hooley, Peter Hoeyng, Sean
Ireton, Oliver Lubrich, Anthony Ozturk, Caroline Schaumann, Heather
I. Sullivan, Johannes Turk, Sabine Wilke, Wilfried Wilms. Sean
Ireton is Associate Professor of German at the University of
Missouri. Caroline Schaumann is Associate Professor of German
Studies at Emory University.
This book offers essays on both canonical and non-canonical
German-language texts and films, advancing ecocritical models for
German Studies, and introducing environmental issues in German
literature and film to a broader audience. This volume
contextualizes the broad-ranging topics and authors in terms of the
Anthropocene, beginning with Goethe and the Romantics and extending
into twenty-first-century literature and film. Addressing the
growing need for environmental awareness in an international
humanities curriculum, this book complements ecocritical analyses
emerging from North American and British studies with a
specifically German Studies perspective, opening the door to a
transnational understanding of how the environment plays an
integral role in cultural, political, and economic issues.
Memory Matters juxtaposes in tripartite structure texts by a child
of German bystanders (Wolf), an Austrian-Jewish child-survivor
(Kluger), a daughter of Jewish emigres (Honigmann), a daughter of
an officer involved in the German resistance (Bruhns), a
granddaughter of a baptized Polish Jew (Maron), and a granddaughter
of German refuges from East Prussia (Duckers). Placed outside of
the distorting victim-perpetrator, Jewish-German, man-woman, and
war-postwar binary, it becomes visible that the texts neither
complete nor contradict each other, but respond to one another by
means of inspiration, reverberation, refraction, incongruity, and
ambiguity. Focusing on genealogies of women, the book delineates a
different cultural memory than the counting of (male-inflected)
generations and a male-dominated Holocaust and postwar literature
canon. It examines intergenerational conflicts and the negotiation
of memories against the backdrop of a complicated mother-daughter
relationship that follows unpredictable patterns and provokes both
discord and empathy. Schaumann's approach questions the assumption
that German-gentile and German-Jewish postwar experiences are
necessarily diametrically opposed (i.e. respond to a "negative
symbiosis") and uncovers intersections and continuities in addition
to conflicts.
First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction
deals with questions of German victimhood. In recent years it has
become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the
Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but
victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of "ethnic"
Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and
persecution. An explosion of literary fiction on these topics has
accompanied this trend. Sebald's The Air War and Literature and
Grass's Crabwalk are key texts, but there are many others; the
great majority seek not to revise German responsibility for the
Holocaust but to balance German victimhood and German perpetration.
This book of essays is the first in English to examine closely the
variety ofthese texts. An opening section on the 1950s -- a decade
of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the
focus shifted to German perpetration -- provides context, drawing
parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar
period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written
since the mid-1990s shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on
perpetration and victimhood, on "ordinary Germans," and on the
balance between historical empathy and condemnation. Contributors:
Karina Berger, Elizabeth Boa, Stephen Brockmann, David Clarke, Mary
Cosgrove, Rick Crownshaw, Helen Finch, Frank Finlay, Katharina
Hall, Colette Lawson, Caroline Schaumann, Helmut Schmitz, Kathrin
Schoedel, and Stuart Taberner. Stuart Taberner is Professor of
Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the
University of Leeds. Karina Berger holds a PhD in German from the
University of Leeds.
Examines the lure of mountains in German literature, philosophy,
film, music, and culture from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first
century. Mountains have always stirred the human imagination,
playing a crucial role in the cultural evolution of peoples around
the globe and becoming infused with meaning in the process. Beyond
their geographical-geological significance,mountains affect the
topography of the mind, whether as objects of peril or attraction,
of spiritual enlightenment or existential fulfillment, of
philosophical contemplation or aesthetic inspiration. This volume
challenges the oversimplified assumption that human interaction
with mountains is a distinctly modern development, one that began
with the empowerment of the individual in the wake of Enlightenment
rationalism and Romantic subjectivity. These essays by European and
North American scholars examine the lure of mountains in German
literature, philosophy, film, music, and culture from the Middle
Ages to the present, with a focus on the interaction between humans
and the alpineenvironment. The contributors consider mountains not
as mere symbolic tropes or literary metaphors, but as constituting
a tangible reality that informs the experiences and ideas of
writers, naturalists, philosophers, filmmakers,and composers.
Overall, this volume seeks to provide multiple answers to questions
regarding the cultural significance of mountains as well as the
physical practice of climbing them. Contributors: Peter Arnds, Olaf
Berwald, Albrecht Classen, Roger Cook, Scott Denham, Sean Franzel,
Christof Hamann, Harald Hoebusch, Dan Hooley, Peter Hoeyng, Sean
Ireton, Oliver Lubrich, Anthony Ozturk, Caroline Schaumann, Heather
I. Sullivan, Johannes Turk, Sabine Wilke, Wilfried Wilms. SEAN
IRETON is Associate Professor of German at the University of
Missouri. CAROLINE SCHAUMANN is Professor of German Studies at
Emory University.
First comprehensive look at how today's German literary fiction
deals with questions of German victimhood. In recent years it has
become much more accepted in Germany to consider aspects of the
Second World War in which Germans were not perpetrators, but
victims: the Allied bombing campaign, expulsions of "ethnic"
Germans, mass rapes of German women, and postwar internment and
persecution. An explosion of literary fiction on these topics has
accompanied this trend. Sebald's The Air War and Literature and
Grass's Crabwalk are key texts, but there are many others; the
great majority seek not to revise German responsibility for the
Holocaust but to balance German victimhood and German perpetration.
This book of essays is the first in English to examine closely the
variety ofthese texts. An opening section on the 1950s -- a decade
of intense literary engagement with German victimhood before the
focus shifted to German perpetration -- provides context, drawing
parallels but also noting differences between the immediate postwar
period and today. The second section focuses on key texts written
since the mid-1990s shifts in perspectives on the Nazi past, on
perpetration and victimhood, on "ordinary Germans," and on the
balance between historical empathy and condemnation. Contributors:
Karina Berger, Elizabeth Boa, Stephen Brockmann, David Clarke, Mary
Cosgrove, Rick Crownshaw, Helen Finch, Frank Finlay, Katharina
Hall, Colette Lawson, Caroline Schaumann, Helmut Schmitz, Kathrin
Schoedel, and Stuart Taberner. Stuart Taberner is Professor of
Contemporary German Literature, Culture, and Society at the
University of Leeds. Karina Berger holds a PhD in German from the
University of Leeds.
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. Mountains have
occupied a central place in German, Swiss, and Austrian
intellectual culture for centuries. This volume offers the first
scholarly English translations of thirteen key texts from the
Germanophone tradition of engagement with mountains. The selected
texts span over 450 years, ranging from the early modern period to
the postmodern era, and encompass several discursive modes of the
mountain experience including geographical descriptions,
philosophical meditations, aesthetic deliberations, and
autobiographical climbing narratives. Well-known figures covered in
this translational sourcebook include Conrad Gessner, Johann Jakob
Scheuchzer, G.W.F. Hegel, Alexander von Humboldt, Georg Simmel,
Leni Riefenstahl, and Reinhold Messner. Each text is accompanied by
a critical introduction that places the translated text within a
broader cultural context. The dual translational-interpretational
approach offered in this volume is intended to stimulate new
international and interdisciplinary dialogue on the cultural
history of mountains and mountaineering. Sean Ireton (University of
Missouri) and Caroline Schaumann (Emory University) are also the
editors of Heights of Reflection: Mountains in the German
Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Twenty-First Century
(2012).
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