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Art And The Ordinary: Literary And Visual Constructs Of The Mundane, Jenessa Kenway
Art And The Ordinary: Literary And Visual Constructs Of The Mundane, Jenessa Kenway
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My research has shown that it is typical of the mundane to be overlooked. The mundane spools out continuously before us unheeded in the form of tasks accomplished almost without our notice. In moment of pause, we look and are overwhelmed with a level of detail and experience which, relieved of the typical haze of inattention, is practically foreign to us. As a student of literature, I’ve discovered the rich exchange between the depiction and the description of mundane objects even though the two are more often treated separately. My observations and arguments below seek to bridge that division by …