Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion
Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion
Summary
Intends to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. This study postulates that there is a free-flow of bottom-up and top-down affective, cognitive inputs during the engaged act of literary reading, and that reading does not necessarily begin or end when our eyes apprehend the words on the page.
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Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion by Michael Burke
Intends to chart what happens in the embodied minds of engaged readers when they read literature. This study postulates that there is a free-flow of bottom-up and top-down affective, cognitive inputs during the engaged act of literary reading, and that reading does not necessarily begin or end when our eyes apprehend the words on the page.Michael Burke is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and English at Roosevelt Academy, Middelburg (Utrecht University), where he is also head of department. He is the current Chair of the International Poetics and Linguistics Association (PALA) and secretary of the Society of Europe (RSE). His publications includeContextualised Stylistics (co-edited withStockwell and Bex, 2000, Rodopi) andPedagogical Stylistics (co-edited with Csabi, Week and Zerkowitz, 2012, Continuum). He has published several stylistics and rhetoric-related articles injournals.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780415872324 |
| ISBN 10 | 0415872324 |
| Title | Literary Reading, Cognition and Emotion |
| Author | Michael Burke |
| Series | Routledge Studies In Rhetoric And Stylistics |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2010-09-28 |
| Number of pages | 284 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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