The Many Faces of Creativity: Exploring Synaesthesia Through a Metaphorical Lens

ISBN-13: 9781108971362 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 75 str.

Jeannette (University of Birmingham) Littlemore

Opis

This Element deepens our understanding of the relationship between embodied sensory experience, emotion, creativity and metaphor.

Spis treści

1. 'Tiny balloons filled with mashed potatoes': what is synaesthesia, and what has it got to do with creativity and metaphor?; 2. 'Those cookies tasted of regret…:' how we investigated evaluative descriptions of sensory experiences; 3. …and rotting flesh: how do synaesthetes and non-synaesthetes evaluate sensory experiences? What we found…; 4. 'Yeurgh…': How we investigated synaesthetes' and non-synaesthetes' responses to emotion words and emotive expressions, and what we found; 5. 'I don't like looking at numbers with no discernible pattern': Conclusion.