ISBN:
9789004297852
,
9789004297876
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (236 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausgabe
Series Statement:
Nature, Culture and Literature
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Wilke, Sabine, 1957 - German culture and the modern environmental imagination
DDC:
363.700943
Keywords:
Germany -- Environmental conditions
;
Germany -- Intellectual life
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Deutsch
;
Literatur
;
Reiseliteratur
;
Natur
;
Deutschland
;
Naturphilosophie
;
Deutschland
;
Film
;
Kunst
;
Naturdarstellung
Abstract:
Intro -- German Culture and the Modern Environmental Imagination: Narrating and Depicting Nature -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. The German environmental imagination -- 1.1 A brief history of the environmental humanities -- 1.2 German philosophy and environmental thought -- 1.3 An environmental perspective in German Studies -- 1.4 Chapter breakdown -- 2. Environmental aesthetics and the German intellectual tradition -- 2.1 Nature as nature -- 2.2 Nature as construct -- 2.3 Mediating nature and construction -- 2.4 Kant and the sublime -- 2.5 Nature in critical theory -- 2.6 Nature philosophy -- 3. Alexander von Humboldt and the modern environmental imagination -- 3.1 Envisioning geographic spaces -- 3.2 Profiling mountains -- 3.3 Performing tropical nature -- 3.4 Nature as cosmos -- 4. Transatlantic dialogues on nature: art -- 4.1 German romantic landscapes -- 4.2 Albert Bierstadt and the American West -- 5. Nature on the move: from landscape to modern cinema -- 5.1 The German mountain film -- 5.2 Fanck versus Riefenstahl -- 5.3 Postwar legacies of the mountain film -- 6. Staging nature: polar performances -- 6.1 Forster's polar discourse -- 6.2 Legacies of Forster's polar discourse -- 7. Colonial nature: negotiating the tropics -- 7.1 Humboldt's tropics -- 7.2 Humboldt's legacy -- 7.3 Herzog's untropicalized tropics -- 8. Beyond the modern German environmental imagination -- Bibliography -- 1. Primary Works -- 2. Criticism -- Index.
Description / Table of Contents:
German Culture and the Modern Environmental Imagination: Narrating and Depicting Nature; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. The German environmental imagination; 1.1 A brief history of the environmental humanities; 1.2 German philosophy and environmental thought; 1.3 An environmental perspective in German Studies; 1.4 Chapter breakdown; 2. Environmental aesthetics and the German intellectual tradition; 2.1 Nature as nature; 2.2 Nature as construct; 2.3 Mediating nature and construction; 2.4 Kant and the sublime; 2.5 Nature in critical theory; 2.6 Nature philosophy
Description / Table of Contents:
3. Alexander von Humboldt and the modern environmental imagination3.1 Envisioning geographic spaces; 3.2 Profiling mountains; 3.3 Performing tropical nature; 3.4 Nature as cosmos; 4. Transatlantic dialogues on nature: art; 4.1 German romantic landscapes; 4.2 Albert Bierstadt and the American West; 5. Nature on the move: from landscape to modern cinema; 5.1 The German mountain film; 5.2 Fanck versus Riefenstahl; 5.3 Postwar legacies of the mountain film; 6. Staging nature: polar performances; 6.1 Forster's polar discourse; 6.2 Legacies of Forster's polar discourse
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Colonial nature: negotiating the tropics7.1 Humboldt's tropics; 7.2 Humboldt's legacy; 7.3 Herzog's untropicalized tropics; 8. Beyond the modern German environmental imagination; Bibliography; 1. Primary Works; 2. Criticism; Index
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