IN DEFENCE OF LITERARY SYNAESTHESIA

The title of the book says it all: an in-depth study of one of the most controversial topics in literary criticism: literary synæsthesia, for which, despite the extensive literature on the subject, no solid definition and classification has yet been found, thus accounting for the persistent confusion which still surrounds it.
Adopting a persistently constructive yet critical perspective, the author establishes clear guidelines as to how to analyse, interpret and classify literary synæsthesia and distinguish it from other figures with which it is often confused, and further shows that literary synæsthesia is composed of two diametrically different categories, the first of which is labelled genuine synæsthesia, the literary synæsthesia par excellence, and t ...