Aesthetic Illusion : : Theoretical and Historical Approaches / / hrsg. von Frederick Burwick, Walter Pape.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Literary and Cultural Studies - 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]
©1990
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Reprint 2012
Language:German
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Table of Contents:
  • i-iv
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Aesthetic Illusion
  • Illusion and the Cognitive Sciences
  • The Illusion of ‘Illusion’
  • Synaesthesia: Perception and Metaphor
  • The Aesthetics of Communication and the Reproduction of Cultural Forms: The Case of Tourist Art
  • Aesthetics and the Referentiality of Symbols and Signs
  • Looking at Animals Looking: Art, Illusion, and Power
  • Aesthetic and Illusion of Daily Life
  • Fiction: On the Fate of a Concept Between Philosophy and Literary Theory
  • Aesthetic Illusion in the Eighteenth Century
  • The Grotesque: Illusion vs. Delusion
  • Illusion and Imagination: Derrida’s Parergon and Coleridge’s Aid to Reflection. Revisionary readings of Kantian formalist aesthetics
  • “Fantastic” Images: From Unenlightening to Enlightening “Appearances” Meant to Be Seen in the Dark
  • Illusion and Literary Genre
  • Representation in Words and in Drama: The Illusion of the Natural Sign
  • Making and Breaking Dramatic Illusion
  • Comic Illusion and Illusion in Comedy: The Discourse of Emotional Freedom
  • Appearance in Poetry: Lyric Illusion?
  • Epistolary Fiction and Its Impact on Readers: Reality and Illusion
  • Illusion and Narrative Technique: The Nineteenth-Century Historical Novel Between Truth and Fiction
  • Illusion and Breaking Illusion in Twentieth-Century Fiction
  • Historical Changes in the Literary Uses of Illusions
  • “And Mock Our Eyes with Air”: Air and Stage Illusion in Shakespearean Drama
  • Double Plotting in Shakespeare’s Comedies: The Case of Twelfth Night
  • Illusion and Spiritual Perception in Donne’s Poetry
  • Imagination and Illusion in English Romanticism
  • “The Picture of the Mind”: Eidetic Images and Pictorial Projection in Wordsworth
  • ‘Verfremdung’ and Illusion in Brecht’s Drama
  • Sam Shepard, Anti-Illusion, and Metadrama: Plays on Writing, Acting, and Character
  • Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Illustrations
  • Index
  • 479-482