IN DEFENCE OF LITERARY SYNAESTHESIA - Tecno-Libro

Ursula DOETSCH KRAUS, born in Cologne (Germany), holds a B.Phil. and M.Phil. in Romance Philology from the University of Navarra, Pamplona, and a graduate degree in English Philology from the University of the Basque Country, Vitoria. She entered the world of literary synæsthesia with her B.Phil. thesis, La sinestesia en el lenguaje poético de Federico García Lorca (1974, unpublished), and her M.Phil. thesis, La sinestesia en la poesía española desde la Edad Media hasta mediados del siglo XIX. Un enfoque semántico (Añejos Rilce/EUNSA, 1992), analyses literary synæsthesia in Spanish poetry prior to French symbolism. She has been working on this Defence of Literary Synæsthesia since 1996, with occasional interruptions, and uninterruptedly since 2013.
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 ...