The discursive space of landscape narratives is difficult to apprehend, because it is effectivelyembedded in the ordinary, the commonplace, and the very means of telling a story. Below this horizon of critical awareness, ideologies become "naturalized." As Eagleton states: "It is one of the functions of ideology to 'naturalize' social reality, to make it seem as innocent and unchangeable as Nature itself."l2 In a sense, instead of the landscape functioning as a locus of memory, it is also a site of "cultural amnesia." The landscape is replete with "dead metaphorsn-sites where original conjunction of meaning is taken-for-natural.