Abstract
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.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | Memory in the Twenty-First Century |
| Subtitle of host publication | New Critical Perspectives from the Arts, Humanities, and Sciences |
| Editors | Sebastiaan Groes |
| Place of Publication | Houndmills, Basingstoke |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 119-124 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 978-1-137-52058-6 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-1-349-56642-6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 15 Jan 2016 |