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Blindness and Literature: Critical Engagements with the Representational Binaries of Western Modernity
"Literary blindness refers to the renderings of blind people in literature or the sustained critical engagement with which is sometimes termed literary blindness studies..." – By David Bolt
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Literature and Olfactory Modernity
"Olfactory experience has been relatively marginalized in literary studies, and in Western aesthetics more broadly. Deodorization, as both a “civilizational” project and an ideology that stigmatizes people and communities..." – By Hsuan L. Hsu
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