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Author:   Gabriele Dürbeck ,  Christine Kanz
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:  

9783031509124

ISBN 10:   3031509129
Pages:   348
Publication Date:   12 May 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   German

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.- 2. Is there a German-speaking Nature Writing? Broken Traditions and Transnational References.- 3. Barthold Heinrich Brockes and Nature Writing.- 4. ""Sie scheinen zu fliehen "": Nature and Poetry in Johann Wolfgang Goethe's Italienische Reise (1813/17).- 5. How to make nature speak? Novalis' Lehringe zu Sais.- 6. Nature Writing in Transcendental Perspective: Friedrich Hölderlin and Henry David Thoreau.- 7. Humboldtian Writing for the Anthropocene.- 8. Living Still: Stifter's Poetics of Nature.- ANKE KRAMER: Fluid ""Homeland"". Water and Nature Writing in Theodor Fontane's Wanderungen durch die Mark Brandenburg.- 9.  From Brehm's Animal Life to a Report for an Academy. Franz Kafka's Animal History as an Early Commentary on Writing about Nature.- 10. Roses, Figs, Gardens in the Work of Gertrud Kolmar and Ilse Langner.- 11. Wilhelm Lehmann: Nature Writing as a Theory of Behavior.- 12. On the Natural History of Nature Writing. Linné's Disciples.-13. The Representation of Alaska in Peter Handke's Langsame Heimkehr (1979) from the Point of View of Nature Writing.- 14. Nature Writing: On the Usefulness of a New Genre Concept for the Understanding of Sebald's Prose on the Example of the Essay Die Alpen im Meer.- 15. Esther Kinsky's Terrain Texts: A 'Non-Modern' Genre of the Nany Possible Ecologies.- 16. German Nature Writing: Notes on a Representational Gap, on the German Tradition of the Popular Nature Book, and on the Phenomenon 'Peter Wohlleben'.- 17. From Both Sides Now: Nature Writing at Literary Festivals.

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Gabriele Dürbeck is Professor of Literature and Culture Studies at the University of Vechta, Germany. Christine Kanz is Professor of Modern German Literature within the “Cluster Mitte” co-operation in Linz and Salzburg, Austria and is Visiting Professor at Ghent University, Belgium.  

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