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synaesthesia
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synaesthesia 
Phenomenon in which the stimulation of one of the senses produces a response from another sensory modality. Example: seeing the colour red when a particular sound is heard. See modality.


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He subscribes to Wagner's synaesthetic notion of the 'total work of art', which Lepage paraphrases as 'hyper theatre', a blend of speech, song and spectacle that bombards all our senses simultaneously and topples the restrictive walls of whatever auditorium it commandeers.
An artist with such unusual powers of synaesthetic perception as those of Bob Dylan can, through his work, reinstate the buried link between historical memory and myth.
] die' into a 'solid chunk Of afternoon', (1) creating a synaesthetic metaphor instead of the intended meaning, which the Loeb edition gives as 'the day's busy hours'.
 
 
 
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