Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion

An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind

Nonfiction, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Public Speaking, Rhetoric, Reading, Readers, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Books & Reading
Cover of the book Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion by Michael Burke, Taylor and Francis
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Michael Burke ISBN: 9781136890642
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Publication: October 18, 2010
Imprint: Routledge Language: English
Author: Michael Burke
ISBN: 9781136890642
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Publication: October 18, 2010
Imprint: Routledge
Language: English

This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and especially about the role that emotion plays. Burk’s theoretical and empirical study focuses on three central issues: the role emotions play in a core cognitive event like literary text processing; the kinds of bottom-up and top-down inputs most prominently involved in the literary reading process; and what might be happening in the minds and bodies of engaged readers when they experience intense or heightened emotions: a phenomenon sometimes labelled "reader epiphany." This study postulates that there is a free-flow of bottom-up and top-down affective, cognitive inputs during the engaged act of literary reading, and that reading does not necessarily begin or end when our eyes apprehend the words on the page. Burke argues that the literary reading human mind might best be considered both figuratively and literally, not as computational or mechanical, but as oceanic.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

This work seeks to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. Despite the recent stylistic, linguistic, and cognitive advances that have been made in text-processing methodology and practice, very little is known about this cultural-cognitive process and especially about the role that emotion plays. Burk’s theoretical and empirical study focuses on three central issues: the role emotions play in a core cognitive event like literary text processing; the kinds of bottom-up and top-down inputs most prominently involved in the literary reading process; and what might be happening in the minds and bodies of engaged readers when they experience intense or heightened emotions: a phenomenon sometimes labelled "reader epiphany." This study postulates that there is a free-flow of bottom-up and top-down affective, cognitive inputs during the engaged act of literary reading, and that reading does not necessarily begin or end when our eyes apprehend the words on the page. Burke argues that the literary reading human mind might best be considered both figuratively and literally, not as computational or mechanical, but as oceanic.

More books from Taylor and Francis

Cover of the book Seeing Through the Seventies by Michael Burke
Cover of the book Six Minutes for the Patient by Michael Burke
Cover of the book Schubert the Progressive by Michael Burke
Cover of the book The Chronicle of Muntaner by Michael Burke
Cover of the book Measuring and Evaluating Sustainability by Michael Burke
Cover of the book Small Navies by Michael Burke
Cover of the book The Commemoration of Women in the United States by Michael Burke
Cover of the book Music in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity by Michael Burke
Cover of the book Claiming the International by Michael Burke
Cover of the book Intelligence by Michael Burke
Cover of the book Becoming Parents and Overcoming Obstacles by Michael Burke
Cover of the book Postcolonial Lesbian Identities in Singapore by Michael Burke
Cover of the book Productivity Growth in Developing Countries by Michael Burke
Cover of the book Organizing the World by Michael Burke
Cover of the book The Barcelona Process by Michael Burke
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy