Index

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. From un True to Occult Truth: The Fascination with Synaesthesia in Fin de Siecle France 17
6. Chapter 2. A Transcendental Language of Color: Synaesthesia and the Astral World 46
7. Chapter 3. The Meaning of Synaesthesia Is Meaning 65
8. Chapter 4. Sensory Unity Before the Fall: Synaesthesia, Eideticism, and the Loss of Eden 94
9. Chapter 5. The Gift: Vladimir Nabokov’s Eidetic Technique 120
10. Chapter 6. Conclusion: The Redemption of Thinking 165
11. Notes 187
12. Bibliography 201
13. Index 217