Abstract
For a century at least, in Western cultures, strong odors were mostly regarded as “bad”, stinks to be done away with. Banes finds that performing artists are attempting to restore the sense of smell to the theatrical experience. She anatomizes the rhetoric and practice of “aroma design” in theatrical representation and looks at smell as a paradigm of “liveness.”
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© 2001 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2001
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