Libraries of the Mind. What Happens after Reading
<p>Roy Sommer’s essay “Libraries of the Mind. What Happens after Reading” engages with the nexus between narrative, reading and the future – the resonance of texts in our long-term memory. It explores various aspects of forgetting and remembering literature, including the potential and the lim...
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description | <p>Roy Sommer’s essay “Libraries of the Mind. What Happens after Reading” engages with the nexus between narrative, reading and the future – the resonance of texts in our long-term memory. It explores various aspects of forgetting and remembering literature, including the potential and the limits of empirical and experimental approaches to our <em>Kopfbibliotheken</em> (‘libraries of the mind’). Blending concepts and metaphors from neuroscience, cognitive psychology and narrative theory, the featured article offers a phenomenological account of forgetting and remembering fiction. It introduces the metaphor of “architexture” to describe a hypothetical neuronal trace of our reading experiences, a vital element of worldview curation in a reader’s mind.</p> |
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spelling | doaj.art-f7ceb881a93f43059bd5bcfb793893892022-12-22T03:47:52ZdeuBergische Universität WuppertalDiegesis: Interdisziplinäres E-Journal für Erzählforschung2195-21162020-06-0191393Libraries of the Mind. What Happens after ReadingRoy Sommer<p>Roy Sommer’s essay “Libraries of the Mind. What Happens after Reading” engages with the nexus between narrative, reading and the future – the resonance of texts in our long-term memory. It explores various aspects of forgetting and remembering literature, including the potential and the limits of empirical and experimental approaches to our <em>Kopfbibliotheken</em> (‘libraries of the mind’). Blending concepts and metaphors from neuroscience, cognitive psychology and narrative theory, the featured article offers a phenomenological account of forgetting and remembering fiction. It introduces the metaphor of “architexture” to describe a hypothetical neuronal trace of our reading experiences, a vital element of worldview curation in a reader’s mind.</p>https://www.diegesis.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/diegesis/article/view/376 |
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title | Libraries of the Mind. What Happens after Reading |
title_full | Libraries of the Mind. What Happens after Reading |
title_fullStr | Libraries of the Mind. What Happens after Reading |
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title_short | Libraries of the Mind. What Happens after Reading |
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