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

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Author / Creator:	Thomas, Diana Mary Eva, author.
Imprint:	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Description:	1 online resource (250 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Bartlett, Anne. -- Knitting. Women authors, Australian. Australian literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism. Textile fabrics -- Australia. Australian literature -- Women authors. Textile fabrics. Women authors, Australian. Australia. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11910856

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ISBN:	9781443879422 1443879428 1443800791 9781443800792
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Thomas, Diana Mary Eva. Texts and textiles. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016 1443800791

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