The mountain literature in the space of performance of a sporting achievement

Authors

  • Adam Majewski University of Gdansk

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26881/prog.2022.11.10

Keywords:

literature, performance, mountains, alpinism, mountaineering, sport

Abstract

A sporting achievement, especially in the domain of Himalayan mountaineering, is always a performative activity. Both in the historical perspective and nowadays, it is related to the theatralization of social life, and even its ritualization. Each type of mountaineering achievement is an act of a specific performance, which is also realized „after the fact” through a series of activities: giving interviews, participating in meetings with the audience and mountain festivals, publishing books etc. The last example causes the so-called mountain literature can be considered as a component of a performance of sporting achievement.

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Author Biography

Adam Majewski, University of Gdansk

Adam Majewski – A graduate the University of Gdańsk, the faculty of Polish philology. He has published in many magazines and is the author of literary books. He has been teaching at universities for over a dozen years. He is currently writing about mountaineering and other sports. Member of the ZAiKS and the Association of Polish Writers. He lives in Gdańsk.

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Published

2022-12-30

How to Cite

Majewski, A. (2022). The mountain literature in the space of performance of a sporting achievement. Progress, (11), 119–126. https://doi.org/10.26881/prog.2022.11.10