Inventing Experience: Medieval, Psychedelic, and Postmodern
South Atlantic Quarterly April 1, 2025 Patricia Dailey
What kind of experience is “literary experience,” and what might it have in common with psychedelics? This essay exposes a poetics of experience embedded within psychedelics and shows its common ground with the literary space of a poem in the Middle Ages. While writers like Aldous Huxley have often appealed to the precursor of the medieval, this essay takes a different turn. By looking at the...