ABSTRACT
To recognize the role of perspective and vantage point, to recognize at the same time that there are always multiple perspectives and multiple vantage points, is to recognize that no accounting, disciplinary or otherwise, can ever be complete. There is always more. There is always possibility. And this is always where the space opens for the pursuit of freedom. Much the same can be said about experiences with art objects-not only literary texts, but music, painting, dance. They have the capacity, when authentically attended to, to enable persons to hear and see what they would not ordinarily hear and see, to offer visions of consonance and dissonance that are unfamiliar and indeed abnormal, to disclose the incomplete profiles of the world. As importantly, in this context, they have the capacity to de-familiarize experience: to begin with the overtly familiar and transfigure it into something different enough to make those who are awakened hear and see.
