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The Confessions of a Synesthetic Reader
- Configurations
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 28, Number 3, Summer 2020
- pp. 333-358
- 10.1353/con.2020.0015
- Article
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ABSTRACT:
Synesthesia is a neuropsychological condition that causes the stimulation of one sense to evoke a sensation in another sense. One of the most common forms involves the perception of color in response to printed letters; for example, a black letter A might be perceived in the reader's mind as a red A. This essay explores the relevance of synesthesia to literary criticism by asking: What effect might perceiving the alphabet in luminous colors have on the experience of reading?