Texts and textiles : affect, synaesthesia and metaphor in fiction

Summary: 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.

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ISBN: 9781443800792
ISBN: 1443800791
ISBN: 1443879428
ISBN: 9781443879422
Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Conclusion; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Appendix D; Bibliography
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.