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

In a conversation with his physician, a nineteenth-century resident of Paris who lived near the railroad described sensations of brilliant color generated by the sounds of trains passing in the night. This patient - a synaesthete - experienced "color hearing" for letters, words, and most s...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Dann, Kevin T., 1956-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1998.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.