SOURCE: “Seeing and Hearing in Marius the Epicurean,” in Nineteenth Century Fiction, Vol. 37, No. 2, September, 1982, pp. 188-206.
In the following essay, Bump describes how Pater uses aural imagery and performatives in Marius the Epicurean to lead Marius to “the music of Logos” and “a fuller sense of human communication.”
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