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Author Footprints Pt. 1 – Aura & Reliquary
Why do we drive thousands of miles just to touch the wooden beams of an author’s birthplace?
From Poe’s Baltimore to PEI and Waywords’s own Waterford, MI, we consider what it takes to build a literary destination and how this works to undermine the very real need for we travelers to cross the threshold from the literary into the physical. Is there a way to thwart the hucksters of simulations? Perhaps!
Resources:
Bachelard, Gaston. The Poetics of Space, 1969.
Benjamin, Walter. “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction,” 1969.
MacLeod, Nicola E. Literary Fiction…
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