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The Chimes
The world around Simon sings, each movement a pulse of rhythm, each object weaving its own melody, music ringing in every drop of air. Welcome to the world of The Chimes. Here, life is orchestrated by a vast musical instrument that renders people unable to form new memories. The past is a mystery, each new day feels the same as the last, and before is blasphemy. But slowly, inexplicably, Simon is beginning to remember. He emerges from sleep each morning with a pricking feeling, and sense there is something he urgently has to do. In the city Simon meets Lucien, who has a gift for hearing, some secrets of his own, and a theory about the danger lurking in Simon's past. A stunning debut composed of memory, music, love and freedom, The Chimes pulls you into a world that will captivate, enthrall and inspire.
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Ocean memory in abalone stories of the Anthropocene
In this “Practice Bridge” essay, I turn to literary fiction as a source for thinking about interconnected forms of ocean memory that are under chemical threat in the Anthropocene. Focusing on Mandy-Suzanne Wong’s short story duology Awabi (2018), or “abalone,” I examine two forms of ocean memory that concern the lifeways of abalone and the Japanese Ama divers who have traditionally harvested them. In both stories, a future of increased ocean acidification interrupts the abalone’s chemosensory memory and the Ama diver’s cultural memory. Cultural memory depends on the ongoing survival of abalone, a precondition for passing diving traditions to their daughters. Acidified seas threaten the formation of abalone shells and cause the erosion of social relationships that depend on ocean health. Through narrative techniques of synaesthesia (the crossing of two senses) and allegory, Wong shows how the living memory of both abalone and Ama divers is interconnected, and how crises of oceanic health affect the survival of cultural practices. Awabi succeeds in dramatizing ocean acidification through techniques of sensation, techniques that could complement the empirical case for addressing ocean acidification as a form of forgetting in the Anthropocene.
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The colour of Bee Larkham's murder
How do you solve a mystery when you don't understand the clues? There are three things you need to know about Jasper. 1. He sees the world completely differently. 2. He can't recognise faces not even his own.3. He is the only witness to the murder of his neighbour, Bee Larkham. But it's hard to catch a murderer when you can't recognise their face. An extraordinary and compelling debut which will make you see the world in a way you've never seen it before.
Removal and Omission of Fiction Synesthetic Metaphors in English-Ukrainian Translation
This paper investigates omission and removal of synesthetic metaphoric descriptions in English-Ukrainian translations of Celeste Ng’s novel “Everything I Never Told You”. A synesthetic metaphor is viewed as a product of mapping between two different domains of human experience, which are both of sensory nature. The mappings instantiate in synesthetic metaphoric descriptions. The study resorts to the methodological tools of cognitive metaphor translation theory and the affordances of corpus linguistics and quantitative analysis to reveal the correlation between the choice of removal/omission of the source-text synesthetic metaphoric descriptions and the linguacultural specificity/universality of their metaphorical mappings. The results suggest that omission/removal is explained by the linguacultural features of the source-target text cross-sensory mappings and the translators’ free choices. Omission can be accounted for by a translator’s choice to avoid redundancy. Removal occurs if the target-text equivalent synesthetic metaphoric description a) is based on a cross-sensory mapping not embedded in the target linguaculture, b) rests on a different semantic specification of a structurally identical cross-sensory mapping, or c) has a lower degree of conventionality than its non-metaphoric periphrasis.
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The color of lies
High school senior Ella Cleary, whose synesthesia causes her to see colors with each interaction, must question everything she knows about her life when journalism student Alec investigates her parents' death.
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Poetika a estetika modernizmu v dvoch komorných hrách Vladimíra Hurbana Vladimírova z prvého desaťročia 20 storočia Keď sa schladí, 1905; Boj, 1907
Štúdia ponúka interpretačné čítanie dvoch jednoaktových dramatických textov Vladimíra Hurbana Vladimírova (1884 – 1950) s témou lásky: Keď sa schladí... (1905) a Boj (1907). Ide o hry s výraznou tendenciou k modernistickej poetike: dramatická výpoveď sa v nich subjektivizuje (rovnaký moment definuje aj poéziu a prózu slovenskej moderny z prelomu 19. a 20. storočia), je štylizovaná ako symbolická, dejová zložka je oslabená, v popredí je evokácia psychického a citového prežívania človeka. Presun ťažiska dramatickej výpovede do oblasti vnútorného života je výrazne spojený s problematizáciou kategórií subjektu (interný dramatický subjekt) a času (významotvorná práca s temporálnym rámcom), a na úrovni kompozície aj kompaktnosti a celistvosti výpovede. Do popredia sa dostáva fragment, neukončenosť, otvorený koniec. Dramatický potenciál klasickej drámy je kondenzovaný do fragmentárneho žánru jednoaktovky. Prieniky umeleckých smerov (symbolizmus, impresionizmus, secesia) a technika synestézie dovoľujú sledovať prelínanie mnohotvárnych umeleckých postupov a literárnych techník, použitých na nuansované stvárnenie dominantných osobných a subjektívnych tém.
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Light years
When a mysterious virus turns into a worldwide pandemic, sixteen-year-old Luisa Ochoa-Jones travels across the country in search of a cure, discovering that the fate of humanity may rest in the confluence of her extraordinary computer programming skills and a synesthesia-like condition that causes her senses to misfire when she is under emotional stress.
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Shade me
\"A teenage girl with special cognitive abilities becomes embroiled in a mystery surrounding the brutal attack of a high-profile classmate and a sexy yet dangerous relationship with a stranger\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Nová poetika starnúceho majstra Martin Kukučín Spoločenské pôžitky
Po príchode na Slovensko v roku 1922 sa Martin Kukučín stretol s rozpačitým prijatím. Dokončoval tu svoje rozpracované dielo Mať volá a v archívoch sa pripravoval na historické romány z polovice 19. storočia. Rezervovaný postoj voči nemu i celému jeho dielu sa naplno odkryl po jeho smrti v roku 1928. Najradikálnejšie kritizovali Kukučínovu prózu ambiciózni ľavicoví literáti, ale nešetrili ho ani starší kritici. Kukučínov pokus o zmenu poetiky, ktorý sa odohral v roku 1923, keď v časopise Slovenské pohľady vydal črtu Spoločenské pôžitky, bol označený za formalistický a verbalistický. Nikto neakceptoval, že jeho poetika sa rozvinula no nového štádia umeleckej vyzretosti s jasnou ambíciou presiahnuť realistické výrazové prostriedky. Próza Spoločenské pôžitky tvorí v kontexte Kukučínovej tvorby výnimočný experiment. Je zároveň hravým intermédiom medzi spomínanými ideologicko-filozofickými románovými opusmi. Na pozadí spracovania témy urážky a odplaty formuluje autor svoju úvahu o krehkých medziľudských vzťahoch i nadčasovú platnosť etického imperatívu, že žiadny čin nie je bez následkov a za všetko sa platí. Tento svoj umelecký zámer realizuje prostredníctvom sofistikovaných poetických figúr, z ktorých originálnym spôsobom využíva najmä synestéziu ako antropologický fenomén, spájajúci oddelené zmyslové domény, aby prostredníctvom kognitívnych a senzuálnych schopností komunikoval so svetom.
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