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.
| ISBN: | 9780820439945 |
| Publication date: | 1st January 1999 |
| Author: | Hugo Walter |
| Publisher: | P. Lang an imprint of Lang, Peter, Publishing Inc. |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 171 pages |
| Series: | Studies on Themes and Motifs in Literature |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: general Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |