From Sight to Vision: Haptic Visuality and the Ordinary Sacredness in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”
From Sight to Vision: Haptic Visuality and the Ordinary Sacredness in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral”
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In this paper, I will begin by examining how the narrator in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” initially portrays Robert through the lens of the “medical model” of disability. I will then turn to Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception and Laura U. Marks’s theory of haptic visuality to analyze how the narrative disrupts the supremacy of vision, reframing perception as a deeply embodied, multisensory process rooted in gesture, proximity, and shared touch. Finally, I will argue that this embodied, relational mode of seeing opens a path beyond the confines of ordinary experience toward an encounter with the sacred, revealing that traces of the sacred can emerge even within the fabric of everyday life.
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In this paper, I will begin by examining how the narrator in Raymond Carver’s “Cathedral” initially portrays Robert through the lens of the “medical model” of disability. I will then turn to Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenology of perception and Laura U. Marks’s theory of haptic visuality to analyze how the narrative disrupts the supremacy of vision, reframing perception as a deeply embodied, multisensory process rooted in gesture, proximity, and shared touch. Finally, I will argue that this embodied, relational mode of seeing opens a path beyond the confines of ordinary experience toward an encounter with the sacred, revealing that traces of the sacred can emerge even within the fabric of everyday life.