Representation and Immersion. The Embodied Meaning of Literature

Representation and Immersion. The Embodied Meaning of Literature

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This article explores the relations among three forms of representations (artistic, red pygmy dogwood mental, and neural) and immersion, considered as an altered state of consciousness, in the context of literary reading.We first define immersive reading as an intensification of our embodied experience of literary representation, in read more accordance to neuropsychological studies about embodied cognition.We further consider the style of interpretation demanded by such immersive reading and its ethical and ecological underpinnings.