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Art And Androgyny: The Aerialist, Naomi Ritter
Art And Androgyny: The Aerialist, Naomi Ritter
Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature
Among the many circus performers who have fascinated writers and artists since Romanticism, the clown and the aerialist predominate. In the nineteenth century, the tightrope artiste inspired comparisons with the (self-styled) equally daring and equally craftsmanlike poet. The vertical metaphor suggested a vision of transcendent art that Romantics and their heirs claimed for themselves. In the twentieth century, vestiges of the same identification and transcendence remain, but a new sexual focus appears also. Two important texts by Cocteau and Thomas Mann, "Le Numero de Barbette" (1926) and Chapter 1 in Book III of Felix Krull ( 1951), show the aerial …
1989 Forces, Peggy Brown
Parnassus 1989
Parnassus
The 1989 edition of the student literary journal, Parnassus, published by Taylor University in Upland, Indiana.