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Mountain Climbing as American Transcendental Pilgrimage

Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Colorado 14ers Peakbaggers

Dennis Tobin (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2003
Edwin Mellen Press Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-7734-6755-2 (ISBN)

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Fifty-four 14,000-foot mountains, or 14ers, are the focal points in the cultural geography of Colorado mountaineering. This work summarizes an analysis of both peakbagger narratives and mountaineering literature, and identifies spatial data of peakbaggers.

Introduction: inquiry; personification; portraiture. Literature review: geography; nature; pilgrimage; Qualitative methodology: data; diachrony; scale; narration; transection. Place: Colorado 14ers; pilgrimage landscape; poetic landscape; scale; spatial symbolism. Club organization and individual members: Colorado Mountain Club; Peakbagging. Who climbs?: time; age; extra; career; times. Climbers or pilgrims?: commodity; beauty; language; discipline; transcendental; sentimental; funeral; communitas; sport; intrinsic; analysis. Transcendental pilgrimage: religion; reiteration; transcendental Ziggurat model. Summary of conclusions. Appendices: the 54 Fourteeners of Colorado; Colorado Mountain Club mission statement; transect model; "Nature" by Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Reihe/Serie	Studies in Art and Religious Interpretation ; No.33
Zusatzinfo	bibliography, index
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Liturgik / Homiletik
ISBN-10	0-7734-6755-6 / 0773467556
ISBN-13	978-0-7734-6755-2 / 9780773467552
Zustand	Neuware