Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion: An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind

by Michael Burke

Book Overview

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. Burke's theoretical and empirical study focuses on three central issues: the role emotions play in a core...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415520681
• ISBN13: 9780415520683
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 298 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"