ABSTRACT
When people talk about the experience of reading literature, they describe the feeling of being immersed in the world of the text, relating to characters, scenes, and ideas in a way that happens rarely in non-literary reading. It seems as if a threshold is crossed and readers can project their minds into the other world, find their way around there, and fill out the rich detail between the words of the text on the basis of real-life experience and knowledge. At the same time as keeping track of the ways in which the world of the text represents a shift away from your own reality, readers generally also keep track of the levels they have crossed in order to follow the different apparently conscious minds presented to you in the reading process.
