The Draw of the Alps

Alpine Summits and Borderlands in Modern German-speaking Culture
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-11-114907-3
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, Band 36, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 508 g

Reihe: Interdisciplinary German Cultural Studies

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.

Zielgruppe

Scholars working in German Studies, literary studies, photography

Autoren/Hrsg.

McClelland, Richard

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Richard McClelland, University of Bristol, United Kingdom.