Synaesthetic emergence: a scoping review of factors facilitating synaesthetic states in non-synaesthetes through arts engagement by Dominik Havsteen-Franklin, Valeria Perboni

Subjects: “…Synaesthesia…”
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Walter Pater’s Anders-Streben: as Theory and as Practice by Margaux Poueymirou

“…In this article, I examine Pater’s theory of ‘Anders-streben’ in relation to the concept of synaesthesia and as a context for understanding the role, function and rhetorical style of ‘aesthetic criticism.’ …”
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Eudora Welty: Sensing the Particular, Revealing the Universal in Her Southern World  by Pearl McHaney

“…Eudora Welty writes poetic prose that is painted with colors—red, rose, blue, green, silver, black, white, pearly gray, golden-yellow, rich in figurative language, and resplendent in sensory images and synaesthesia. Welty’s art illustrates an extraordinary sensitivity for discovering the South, in particular, but also the world at large. …”
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‘Solving the problem of reality’ in Virginia Woolf’s Flush by Pauline Macadré

“…The reader becomes the witness of a reconfiguration of perception as primeval instincts are inscribed within Flush’s body, smell takes over eyesight and the novel depicts a world distorted by synaesthesia. Despite the human qualities Flush is endowed with, a reversal still occurs which highlights the human beings’ otherness and reduces their/our language to hieroglyphic, undecipherable signs, unable to grasp reality. …”
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