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, mental, and neural) and immersion, considered as an altered state of consciousness, Circulation Support in the context of literary reading.We first define immersive reading as an intensification of our embodied experience of literary representation, in accordance to neuropsychological studies about embodied cognition.We further consider the style kids purse of interpretation demanded by such immersive reading and its ethical and ecological underpinnings.