...Interrogating Sacredness in Performance ...

... of literature, as the powerful moment that constitutes what he argues is the sacredness of literature, sahitya’s secular sacredness. The chapter provides a very unconventional reading of Robert Frost’s “Birches” to show how the poem can be experienced uselessly, beyond the domains of the reified and accepted...

... it means to see uselessness as a nonevent of literature, as the powerful moment that constitutes what he argues is the sacredness of literature, sahitya’s secular sacredness. The chapter provides a very unconventional reading of Robert Frost’s “Birches” to show how the poem can be experienced uselessly...