Writing the Mountains: The Alpine Form in German Fiction

Writing the Mountainsreconsiders the role of mountains in German language fiction from 1800 to the present and...
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Author: Jens Klenner
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Writing the Mountains: The Alpine Form in German Fiction by Klenner, Jens

Writing the Mountains: The Alpine Form in German Fiction

BD$275.30

Writing the Mountains: The Alpine Form in German Fiction

BD$275.30
Author: Jens Klenner
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Writing the Mountainsreconsiders the role of mountains in German language fiction from 1800 to the present and argues that in a range of texts, from E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Die Bergwerke zu Falun" (1819) to Elfriede Jelinek's Die Kinder der Toten(1995) and beyond, mountains serve as dynamic spaces of material change that generate aesthetic and narrative innovation. In contrast to dominant critical approaches to the Alpine landscape in literature, in which mountain ranges often features as passive settings, or which trace the influence of geographical and geological sciences in literary productions, this study argues for the dynamic role in literature of presumably rigid mineral structures.

In German-language fiction after 1800, the counter-intuitive topology of rocky mountain ranges and unfathomable subterranean depths of the Alpine imaginary functions as a space of exception which appears to reconfirm and radically challenge the foundations of Enlightenment thought. Writing the Mountainsreads the mountain range as a rigid yet permeable liminal space. Within this zone, semiotic orders are unsettled, as is the division between organic and inorganic, between the human and the other.

Author: Jens Klenner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 06/13/2024
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9798765106501

About the Author
Jens Klenner is Assistant Professor at Bowdoin College, USA, and a Fellow of the German Studies Association. He has written extensively on German studies and philosophy, with one of his most recent works being the edited journal, Sprache und Rache (2019, co-edited with Juliane Prade-Weiss).

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