Texts and textiles : affect, synaesthesia and metaphor in fiction /

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This study shows how fiction that makes use of textiles as an essential element utilizes synaesthetic writing and synaesthetic metaphor to create an affective link to, and response in, the reader. These links and responses are examined using affect theory from Silvan Tomkins and Brian Massumi and wo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thomas, Diana Mary Eva (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Temas:
Bartlett, Anne. > Knitting.
Women authors, Australian.
Australian literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Textile fabrics > Australia.
Textiles et tissus > Australie.
Literature & literary studies.
Gender studies: women.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Australian literature > Women authors
Textile fabrics
Women authors, Australian
Australia
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This study shows how fiction that makes use of textiles as an essential element utilizes synaesthetic writing and synaesthetic metaphor to create an affective link to, and response in, the reader. These links and responses are examined using affect theory from Silvan Tomkins and Brian Massumi and work on synaesthesia by Richard Cytowic, Lawrence Marks, and V.S. Ramachandran, among others. Synaesthetic writing, including synaesthetic metaphors, has been explored in poetry since the 1920s and, more recently, in fiction, but these studies have been general in nature. By narrowing the field of inv.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:9781443879422
1443879428

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