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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Synaesthesia"”.
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The senses and synaesthesia in Horace's Satires
… his poetic program. I seek to detect moments of synaesthesia within the text, by which I mean a literary crossing of the readable senses. Synaesthesia derives its name from the medical condition synaesthesia, which is a neurological conflation of the bodily senses: physical stimuli in the …
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The role of salience on crowding and visual search in the context of synaesthesia
Visual crowding is a phenomenon in which the identification of visual stimuli is impaired by nearby directions. it occurs both for simple stimuli (oriented lines) and for more complex forms. The literature on crowding is reviewed, along with relevant literature on visual search and stimulus …
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Senses In Synthesis: Imaginative Sensing In The 19th Century
… sensory analogy, intersensory metaphor, and synaesthesia. This dissertation explores this phenomenon through a study of five poets and artists: Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Barlas, and Julia Margaret Cameron. Using imaginative sensing, these artists …
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Developing an artificial colour-sound association for musical composition
… be strongly argued, had the neurological trait synaesthesia. The author, a non-synaesthete, creates a logical correspondence between colour and sound and uses it to explore the tonality of aesthetic colour combinations in nature and modern life. He argues that if the colour-sound practitioner is …
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"""Music that makes holes in the sky"": Georgia O'Keefe's visionary romanticism"
… responses, an interest in the sublime, music, synaesthesia, and the irrational forces of nature, including human nature, much as nineteenth-century Romantic artists did."
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Obscenities offstage: Melbourne’s gay saunas & the limits of representation
… hermeticism, muteness, obscurity, seclusion and synaesthesia, on producing these effects as the commodities on which its commercial viability effectively depends, the gay sauna can be recognised as a zone in which the knowledge sought by the physical and human sciences is necessarily and always …
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A study of Edith Sitwell as a critic.
… she emphasized the use of texture, rhythm, and synaesthesia as a means for obtaining the desired variations. The essence of Miss Sitwell's criticism can be found in four volumes: Poetry and Criticism (1925), Alexander Pope (1930), Aspects of Modern Poetry (1934), and A Notebook on William …
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Composing visual music: human traces, from an animator’s perspective
… combined with the lack of a ubiquitous, uniform synaesthesia, pose many challenges. Indeed, visual music in the 20th century, as described by William Moritz, was ‘virtually suppressed’. The modernist formalist principles that were espoused by Fischinger, Ruttmann and Richter, which are often seen …
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Ekphrastic Medieval Visions: A New Discussion in Ekphrasis and Interarts Theory
… of mystical visions, such as apophasis and synaesthesia; the subsequent two chapters respectively examine the ekphrasis of Hildegard of Bingen's Scivias and the space of revision between Julian of Norwich's A Vision Showed to a Devout Woman and A Revelation of Love. </p><p>The conclusion …
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Olivier Messiaen's Influence in the Violoncello Works of Toru Takemitsu
… by Jonathan W. Bernard in his article Messiaen’s Synaesthesia: The Correspondence between Color and Sound Structure in His Music. The monograph is divided into three separate chapters with two sections each, totaling six different sections. Chapter 1 contains the introduction and music history of …
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Exploring teachers' knowledge and practice of multiliteracies pedagogy: A narrative inquiry
… toward a purposeful and conscious teaching of synaesthesia or the manipulation of modes, and the semiotic functions of texts. Additionally, future research may consider: i) engaging longitudinal narrative research to examine teachers’ understanding of students’ understanding of literacy and …
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Exiled nostalgia and musical remembrance: songs of grief, joy, and tragedy among Iraqi Jews
This dissertation examines a practice of private song-making, one whose existence is often denied, among a small number of amateur Iraqi Jewish singers in Israel. These individuals are among those who abruptly emigrated from Iraq to Israel in the mid twentieth century, and share formative …