When Words Become Touch: The New Science of Prose That Speaks to the Body
A growing cohort of experimental writers is pushing language beyond its traditional role as a vehicle for meaning, engineering sentences that register in the nervous system before they register in the mind. Through synaesthetic technique, deliberate rhythm, and a near-clinical understanding of sensory memory, these authors are collapsing the distance between text and physical experience. The result is a new category of literature that does not merely describe sensation—it manufactures it.
