Rather than a limitation, these conditions on the spatial narrative offer distinct opportunities for what we refer to as "open narratives." These narratives are open to interpretation, multiple authorship, competing discourses and change, making landscape such a vital phenomenon. Out of the interdisciplinary and evolving field of contemporary narrative theory, we can identify certain critical moves that re-conceive narrative and landscape in ways that can engender these new practices. First, landscape and narrative can be redescribed as cultural systems of signification, as language. Second, landscape and narrative are also linked by an expanded notion of text and the network of intertextual associations. Further, landscape narratives are not directly homologous to language, but meanings and interpretations are both enabled and constrained within social discourses.