Format:
1 Online-Ressource (256 Seiten)
ISBN:
9781350162853
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9781350162839
Series Statement:
Ancient environments
Content:
Introduction / Dawn Hollis and Jason König -- Gessner's mountain sublime / Dan Hooley -- 'Famous from all antiquity' : Etna in classical myth and Romantic poetry / Cian Duffy -- The 'authority of the ancients'? Seventeenth-century natural philosophy and aesthetic responses to mountains / Dawn Hollis -- Toward a continuity of Alpinism in antiquity, premodernity, and modernity : Josias Simler's De Alpibus commentarius (1574) and W.A.B. Coolidge's French translation from 1904 / Sean Ireton --
Content:
"Throughout the longue durée of Western culture, how have people represented mountains as landscapes of the imagination and as places of real experience? In what ways has human understanding of mountains changed - or stayed the same? Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity opens up a new conversation between ancient and modern engagements with mountains. It highlights the ongoing relevance of ancient understandings of mountain environments to the postclassical and present-day world, while also suggesting ways in which modern approaches to landscape can generate new questions about premodern responses. It brings together experts from across many different disciplines and periods, offering case studies on topics ranging from classical Greek drama to Renaissance art, and from early modern natural philosophy to nineteenth-century travel writing. Throughout, essays engage with key themes of temporality, knowledge, identity, and experience in the mountain landscape. As a whole, the volume suggests that modern responses to mountains participate in rhetorical and experiential patterns that stretch right back to the ancient Mediterranean. It also makes the case for collaborative, cross-period research as a route both for understanding human relations with the natural world in the past, and informing them in the present"--
Note:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350162822
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350194106
Language:
English
Keywords:
Gessner, Conrad 1516-1565
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Simmler, Josias 1530-1576
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Dodwell, Edward 1767-1832
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Ätna
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Gebirge
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Berg
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Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826
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Virginia
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Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius 345-420
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Franz von Assisi, Heiliger 1182-1226
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Burnet, Thomas 1635-1715
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Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350162853
