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‘Sense-dwarfed’: Cather, Aestheticism and a New Corporealism
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This chapter begins with an account of Cather’s dialogue with Aestheticism and her fascination with what she called ‘the five avenues’ of the senses. The argument then looks at her representations of the male aesthete, before shifting to a close reading of her story, ‘Coming, Aphrodite!’ The chapter concludes with an extended reading of The Song of the Lark as a kind of narrative laboratory for her experiments with representing bodies and embodiment.
Title: ‘Sense-dwarfed’: Cather, Aestheticism and a New Corporealism
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This chapter begins with an account of Cather’s dialogue with Aestheticism and her fascination with what she called ‘the five avenues’ of the senses.
The argument then looks at her representations of the male aesthete, before shifting to a close reading of her story, ‘Coming, Aphrodite!’ The chapter concludes with an extended reading of The Song of the Lark as a kind of narrative laboratory for her experiments with representing bodies and embodiment.
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