List of Contributors Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Immersion - the experience of literary reading Naomi Adam, Jessica Norledge, Peter Stockwell, and Matthew Voice Part I. Theoretical Innovations 2. Immersion and the Challenges of Character Constellations and Multiperspectivity Ralf Schneider 3. Immersion and Narrative Empathy Suzanne Keen 4. From Literary Immersion to Fission-fusion Aesthetics Miranda Anderson 5. The Subliminal Factors of Immersion Peter Stockwell Part II. Cross-Modal Explorations 6.

Absorbed by the Flat Earth: Conspiracy Immersion on TikTok Jessica Mason 7. Understanding the Simulation-immersion Relationship Harry Cooper 8. The Immersive Potential of an Ekphrastic Experience Polina Gavin 9. Musical stylistic Immersion in Tom Waits''The piano has been drinking (not me)' Matthew Voice PART III. Literary Immersions 10. Escape to Wodehouse world Alice Haines 11. The Paradoxical Properties of Immersive Metafiction Ella Wydrzynska 12. Immersing Readers in the Text-worlds of Anxious People Piergiorgio Trevisan and Gaetano Fiorin 13.

The Spirit of Immersion: Ghosts in Award-winning Contemporary Fiction Naomi Adam 14. Autism, Repetition and Flow in Literary Narratives Andrew Currie 15. Embodied Cognition in Emergency Skin Jessica Norledge.