Bright colors falsely seen : synaesthesia and the search for transcendental knowledge /

Main Author: Dann, Kevin T., 1956-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • From un Truc to occult truth: the fascination with synaesthesia in Fin de siecle France
  • A transcendental language of color: synaesthesia and the astral world
  • The meaning of synaesthesia is meaning
  • Sensory unity before the fall: synaesthesia, eideticism, and the loss of Eden
  • The gift: Vladimir Nabokov's eidetic technique
  • Conclusion: the redemption of thinking.