
Writing the Mountains
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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 Mountains reads 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.
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1. 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
2. Figures from Mines-E.T.A. Hoffmann's "Die Bergwerke zu Falun"
1720-Summer
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An Aesthetic Existence
A Task for Poets
An Empty Cipher
Inversion, Transformations, Transitions
3. 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
4. Folded Mountains-Paul Celan's "Gespräch im Gebirg"
Mountains Vanished
August 1959-Reading Leibniz
Leaving for the Mountains
Wordscapes
The Folded Eye
5. Liquid Mountains-Elfriede Jelinek's Die Kinder der Toten
Mountain Graves
Historical Matters
Into the Mountains
Metamorphoses-Die Murie. Die Furie
Coda
Mountains Immaterial
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