On the Colors of Vowels: Thinking Through Synesthesia by Yamaguchi, Liesl
On the Colors of Vowels: Thinking Through Synesthesia by Yamaguchi, Liesl

On the Colors of Vowels: Thinking Through Synesthesia

Treatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condition...
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On the Colors of Vowels: Thinking Through Synesthesia by Yamaguchi, Liesl

On the Colors of Vowels: Thinking Through Synesthesia

$101.90
On the Colors of Vowels: Thinking Through Synesthesia by Yamaguchi, Liesl

On the Colors of Vowels: Thinking Through Synesthesia

$101.90
Author: Liesl Yamaguchi
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Treatments of synesthesia in the arts and humanities generally assume a clear distinction between the neurological condition and the literary device. Synesthetes' descriptions of colors seen in connection with music, for example, are thought to differ fundamentally from common expressions that rely on transpositions across sensory dimensions ("bright vowels"). This has not always been the case. The distinction emerged over the course of the twentieth century, as scientists sought to constitute "synesthesia" as a legitimate object of modern science.

On the Colors of Vowels investigates the ambiguity of visual descriptions of vowels across a wide range of disciplines, casting several landmark texts in a wholly new light. The book traces the migration of sound-color correspondence from its ancient host (music) to its modern one (vowels), investigating the vocalic Klangfarben of Hermann von Helmholtz's monumental Sensations of Tone, the vowel colors reported in early psychology surveys into audition color?e (colored hearing), the mis-matched timbres that form poetry's condition of possibility in St?phane Mallarm?'s "Crisis of Verse," and the vowel-color analogy central to both the universal alphabets of the nineteenth century and the phonological universals of the twentieth. The book's final chapter turns to an intricately detailed account of vowel-color correspondence by Ferdinand de Saussure, suggesting how the linguist's sensitivity to vowel coloration may have guided his groundbreaking study of Indo-European vocalism.

Bringing out the diverse ways in which visual conceptions of vowels have inflected the arts and sciences of modernity, On the Colors of Vowels makes it possible to see how discourses of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries crafted the enigma we now readily recognize as "synesthesia."

Author: Liesl Yamaguchi
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 01/07/2025
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.67lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9781531509057

About the Author
Liesl Yamaguchi is Assistant Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley. Her translation of Väinö Linna's Unknown Soldiers was the first work of Finnish literature to appear with Penguin Classics (2015).
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