Representation and Immersion. The Embodied Meaning of Literature

This article explores the relations among three forms of representations (artistic, mental, and neural) and immersion, considered as an altered Carpet state of consciousness, in the context of literary reading.We first define immersive reading as Wire-Free Bras an intensification of our embodied experience of literary representation, in 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.