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(2016) Memory in the twenty-first century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
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.
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Burke, M. (2016)., The oceanic literary reading mind: an impression, in S. Groes (ed.), Memory in the twenty-first century, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 119-124.
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