Not Much Has Been Written about the Mountains… On the Subject of Mountain Studies
Not Much Has Been Written about the Mountains… On the Subject of Mountain Studies
Author(s): Elżbieta DutkaContributor(s): Katarzyna Strębska-Liszewska (Translator)
Subject(s): Physical Geopgraphy, Studies of Literature, Polish Literature, Other Language Literature, Tourism, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: mountain; mountain literature; mountaineering literature; Tomasz Stępień; Jacek Kolbuszewski
Summary/Abstract: The article discusses the research subject of mountain studies. The standpoints of two scholars, representative for Polish literary studies, are distinguished, that of Jacek Kolbuszewski’s and Tomasz Stępień’s. While Kolbuszewski argues that the term “mountain literature,” however popular, is imprecise and it is more justified to speak of a theme or a motif of mountains in literature, Stępień draws upon the developments in media studies and adopts a broader definition encompassing all literature somehow related to mountains. Both researchers are united in their conviction that mountaineering literaturę (the works written by climbers) is a separate phenomenon in literature.
Journal: Fabrica Litterarum Polono-Italica
- Issue Year: 9/2025
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 1-16
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
