Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion.

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 es...

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Main Author: Burke, Michael
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2010.
Series:Routledge studies in rhetoric and stylistics.
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Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 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.