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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820285403321

Autore

Burke Michael <1964-, >

Titolo

Literary reading, cognition and emotion : an exploration of the oceanic mind / / Michael Burke

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-89064-5

1-136-89065-3

1-282-92984-4

9786612929847

0-203-84030-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (298 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in rhetoric and stylistics ; ; 1

Classificazione

17.83

Disciplina

418/.4019

Soggetti

Books and reading - Psychological aspects

Literature - Psychology

Mental representation

Reading, Psychology of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-275) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; 1 The Secret Lives of Reading and Remembering; 2 Seeing, Thinking and Feeling; 3 Literary Reading-Induced Mental Imagery; 4 Reading Moods and Reading Places; 5 The Affective Nature of Literary Themes; 6 From Style on the Page to Style in the Mind; 7 Towards a Model of Emotion in Literary Reading; 8 Literary Closure and Reader Epiphany; 9 Reading the Closing Lines of The Great Gatsby; 10 A Cognitive Stylistic Analysis of the The Great Gatsby at Closure; 11 Disportation; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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