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The term synaesthesia where a stimulus applied to one sense involuntarily elicits a response from... more The term synaesthesia where a stimulus applied to one sense involuntarily elicits a response from one or more others describes both a neurological syndrome and a literary device and the two cannot be conflated unproblematically. The former pertains to concrete physical sensation and the latter, more often, to poetic notions of transfemng one sense into another. Notwithstanding this distinction, the latter was elaborated from the former: as a literary device, synaesthesia describes and inscribes bodily sensation, and sensation precedes ideation. Synaesthesia is present in the writings of both Cixous and Barthes. It occurs most notably in Barthes’s writing on painting and music, for example ‘Cy Twombly ou non multa sed multum’, ‘Sagesse de l’art’, ‘Réquichot et son corps’, and ‘Ecoute’. It is inscribed throughout Cixous’s writing and most actively in ‘L’Approche de Clarice Lispector’, ‘La Venue à l’écriture’, ‘Le dernier tableau ou le portrait de dieu’ and LA. Synaesthesia is axial in...
Barthes and Femininity: a Synaesthetic Writing
Nottingham French Studies, 1994
The term synaesthesia where a stimulus applied to one sense involuntarily elicits a response from... more The term synaesthesia where a stimulus applied to one sense involuntarily elicits a response from one or more others describes both a neurological syndrome and a literary device and the two cannot be conflated unproblematically. The former pertains to concrete physical sensation and the latter, more often, to poetic notions of transfemng one sense into another. Notwithstanding this distinction, the latter was elaborated from the former: as a literary device, synaesthesia describes and inscribes bodily sensation, and sensation precedes ideation. Synaesthesia is present in the writings of both Cixous and Barthes. It occurs most notably in Barthes’s writing on painting and music, for example ‘Cy Twombly ou non multa sed multum’, ‘Sagesse de l’art’, ‘Réquichot et son corps’, and ‘Ecoute’. It is inscribed throughout Cixous’s writing and most actively in ‘L’Approche de Clarice Lispector’, ‘La Venue à l’écriture’, ‘Le dernier tableau ou le portrait de dieu’ and LA. Synaesthesia is axial in...
Barthes and Femininity: a Synaesthetic Writing
Nottingham French Studies, 1994