Immersion and Defamiliarization
Immersion and Defamiliarization is a scholarly work, published in 2018 in ''Poetics Today''. The main subjects of the publication include literature, immersion, psychology, linguistics, defamiliarization, perception, online game, art, narrative, aesthetics, zombie, cognitive science, fictional universe, sociology, and narratology. The authors claim that immersion may also take place in works where the reader is more focused on the surface level of the text and that immersion and defamiliarization can both serve to imitate and to direct the attention of the reader toward immersion in the real world and, by means of providing new perceptions, can also lead readers to reconsider the nature of what lies beyond the work: their experience of the real world.