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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...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1998.
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Table des matières:
- 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.