Hybris and Expedition: The Dialectic of Enlightenment and the North Pole Expeditions in Christoph Ransmayr’s The Terrors of Ice and Darkness and Simon Schwartz’s Packeis

• Published in: Diyalog Interkulturelle Zeitschrift Für Germanistik
• Main Author: BAHÇIVAN, Gizem
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: German
• Published: Germanistler Derneği 2023
• Subjects: Christoph Ransmayr;Simon Schwartz;North Pole Expedition;Graphic Novel;Dialectics of Enlightenment; Christoph Ransmayr;Simon Schwartz;Nordpolexpedition;Graphic Novel;Dialektik der Aufklärung; German Language; Literature and Culture; Alman Dili; Edebiyatı ve Kültürü; North Pole; Alman; Nordpol*
• Online Access: https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/diyalog/issue/81506/1407737; https://doi.org/10.37583/diyalog.1407737

The inaccessible regions of the earth, such as the North Pole, have always been considered desirable areas to conquer. Both the natural conditions and the technical inadequacies make travelling there an adventure. Christoph Ransmayr's novel Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis and Sim...