On the Colors of Vowels

Auteur

Liesl Yamaguchi is Assistant Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley.

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Contenu

Introduction: After "Voyelles" | 1

1 Klangfarbe: Vowels in Helmholtz's Sensations of Tone | 21

2 The Interaction of Color | 49

3 Mallarmé and the Tension of Timbre | 65

4 The Colors of the Universal Alphabet | 84

5 L'être imaginaire: Saussure's Colored Vowels | 103

Conclusion: Remarks on "Synesthesia" | 121

Acknowledgments | 141

Notes | 143

Works Cited | 185

Index | 203