The oceanic literary reading mind: An impression
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2016-01-15
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Burke, Michael
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Groes, Sebastiaan
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The mind and brain processes of the literary reading mind are most accurately defined as oceanic: the mind is an ocean. This is the essential premise that I put forward in my book Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion: An Exploration of the Oceanic Mind (Routledge, 2011).1 The statement is of course a metaphor. It follows in a long line of metaphorical apprehensions of the human mind, from Plato’s notion of the mind as a wax tablet to the more modern — some might say reductive — ideas of the human mind as a machine or a computer.
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Burke, M 2016, The oceanic literary reading mind : An impression. in S Groes (ed.), Memory in the Twenty-First Century : New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences. Palgrave Macmillan, Houndmills, Basingstoke, pp. 119-124. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_15