The oceanic literary reading mind: An impression

M. Burke

doi:10.1057/9781137520586_15

The oceanic literary reading mind: An impression

M. Burke

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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	https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137520586_15
Publication status	Published - 15 Jan 2016

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