Published: 2021-02-23

The Flat, Rolling Country, or How the Stereotype of Belgian Landscape is Being Deconstructed and Reconstructed

Judyta Zbierska-Mościcka Logo ORCID

Abstract

Landscapes, just like stereotypes, should be perceived as mental constructions. They appear in literature as indispensable tools in the development of identity, both collective and individual. The present paper traces the evolution of this construction and its different uses changing with time: from the emergence of the Belgian literature (and Belgium) to the present days. Literary examples used in the paper refer, among others, to the works by Gautier, Verhaeren, La Garde, Gevers, Masson, Rolin, Bertrand, Delaive and Gunzig.

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Zbierska-Mościcka, J. (2021). The Flat, Rolling Country, or How the Stereotype of Belgian Landscape is Being Deconstructed and Reconstructed. Romanica Silesiana, 16(2), 168–178. https://doi.org/10.31261/RS.2019.16.16

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Vol. 16 No. 2 (2019)
Published: 2021-05-28


ISSN: 1898-2433
eISSN: 2353-9887

Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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