Immersion and Defamiliarization: Experiencing Literature and World.

Description: Describes "the concept of immersion as seen from cognitive narratology" and the "concept of defamiliarization as seen from unnatural narratology,” applying these theoretical constructs to BD, Jorge Luis Borges's "The Circular Ruin," and Franz Kafka's "The Country Doctor, focusing on dreaming and grieving, and exploring how the narratological processes of these works encourage, inflect, disrupt, and represent the reading experience.