Writing the Mountains: The Alpine Form in German Fiction

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New Directions in German Studies
Title page
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For Barbara, my home.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Translation
I 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
II 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
	INVERSIONS, TRANSFORMATIONS, TRANSITIONS
III Lost in the Mountains—Perspective and Displacement in Georg Büchner’s “Lenz”
	ARRIVALS
	WINDOWS TO THE WORLD
	RETURN TO THE MOUNTAINS
	A LETHAL GAZE
	MEDUSA IN THE MOUNTAINS
IV Folded Mountains—Paul Celan’s “Gespräch im Gebirg”
	MOUNTAINS VANISHED
	AUGUST 1959—READING LEIBNIZ
	LEAVING FOR THE MOUNTAINS
	WORDSCAPES
	THE FOLDED EYE
V 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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