Textual Experience of Mountainous Landscape: Functions of Intertextuality in Robert Macfarlane’s Mountains of the Mind Cover Image

Tekstualne doświadczanie krajobrazu górskiego – o funkcjach intertekstualności w książce Roberta Macfarlane’a Mountains of the Mind
Textual Experience of Mountainous Landscape: Functions of Intertextuality in Robert Macfarlane’s Mountains of the Mind

Author(s): Anna Dziok-Łazarecka
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu w Białymstoku
Keywords: intertextuality; intertext; Macfarlane Robert; travel book; landscape writing

Summary/Abstract: Drawing on the concept of intertextuality, the article offers the reading of Robert Macfarlane’s travel book Mountains of the Mind. It explores the process which frames the collective Western imagination of the mountainous landscape and uncovers the formation of a unique discourse. Finally, the intertextual methodology demonstrates how walking in the footsteps of mountaineers entangles the real-life experience with the literary.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 11
  • Page Range: 275-288
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Polish