Space and Time on the Magic Mountain: Studies in Nineteenth-and Early-twentieth-century European Literature
- ISBN-10
- 0820439940
- ISBN-13
- 9780820439945
- Category
- Literary Criticism / General
- Pages
- 171
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- P. Lang
- Author
- Hugo Walter
Description
Space and Time on the Magic Mountain explores the theme of the magic mountain in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European literature, especially in selected works of William Wordsworth, Matthew Arnold, James Hilton, and Thomas Mann. The magic mountain, an aesthetically, intellectually, and spiritually unique environment, represents a threshold realm at the interface of life and death, time and eternity, where the protagonist experiences an epiphanic moment culminating in a profound and vital awareness of space and time.
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