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Author Wilke, Sabine, 1957- author.

Title German culture and the modern environmental imagination : narrating and depicting nature / by Sabine Wilke.

Publication Info. Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2015]
©2015

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Description 1 online resource (236 pages) : illustrations (some color).
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Series Nature, culture and literature ; volume 11
Nature, culture and literature ; 11.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-230) and index.
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.
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.
Summary Thinking about and relating to the environment ¿́¿ what the Germans call Umwelt, id est, the world that surrounds us ¿́¿ in the way that we do today has a long tradition within modern German culture. German scientists were among the many European explorers that left Europe in the late eighteenth century on voyages of discovery to then unknown parts of the world. For some explorers, discovery meant the fundamental confirmation of their own superiority vis-a¿¿-vis primitive peoples and primitive natures; for others it resulted in a shake-up of their belief in the superiority of European civilization in the face of the achievements of other civilizations, or in the face of spectacular nature scenes that outperformed the temperate European landscapes in terms of scale, sublimity, and grandeur. The documents that contain these stories of discovery left an important impression not only on German culture, but on European civilization at large, defining it vis-a¿¿-vis other civilizations and other natures. Europe today is the product of these encounters, including the way we conceive of our Umwelt, the environment that surrounds us. The story told in this book is the story of the rise of the modern German environmental imagination with particular emphasis on its narrative and visual components, complementing and expanding Barbara Stafford¿́¿s important work in her seminal study of the illustrated travel account from 1984. Chapters on Georg Forster, Alexander von Humboldt, Albert Bierstadt, Leni Riefenstahl, and Werner Herzog unfold the key stages in a process that constitutes the unfolding of the modern German environmental imagination.
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Subject Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.
Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859.
Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902.
Bierstadt, Albert, 1830-1902.
Riefenstahl, Leni.
Riefenstahl, Leni.
Herzog, Werner, 1942-
Herzog, Werner, 1942-
Philosophy of nature -- Germany -- History.
Philosophy of nature.
Germany.
History.
Nature in art.
Nature in art.
Nature in motion pictures.
Nature in motion pictures.
Nature in literature.
Nature in literature.
Geographical perception.
Geographical perception.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9789004297876 (OCoLC)907189733
ISBN 9004297871 (e-book)
9789004297876 (electronic book)
9789004297852 (paperback)
9004297855 (paperback)