Immersion and distance : : aesthetic illusion in literature and other media / / edited by Werner Wolf, Walter Bernhart and Andreas Mahler.

Readers who appear to be lost in a storyworld, members of theatre or cinema audiences who are moved to tears while watching a performance, beholders of paintings who are absorbed by the representations in front of them, players of computer games entranced by the fictional worlds in which they intera...

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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Studies in intermediality, 6
Studies in Intermediality 6.
Physical Description:1 online resource (388 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • Aesthetic Illusion / Werner Wolf
  • On the Emergence of Aesthetic Illusion An Evolutionary Perspective / Katja Mellmann
  • The Role of Participation in Aesthetic Illusion / Richard J. Gerrig and Matthew A. Bezdek
  • Pictures and Hobby Horses: Make-Believe beyond Childhood / Kendall L. Walton
  • Impossible Worlds and Aesthetic Illusion / Marie-Laure Ryan
  • Aesthetic Illusion in Theatre and Drama An Attempt at Application / Andreas Mahler
  • Aesthetic Illusion as an Effect of Lyric Poetry? / Werner Wolf
  • Aesthetic Illusion and the Breaking of Illusion in Painting (Fourteenth to Twentieth Centuries) / Götz Pochat
  • Wilful Deceptions Aesthetic Illusion at the Interface of Painting, Photography and Digital Images / Katharina Bantleon and Ulrich Tragatschnig
  • Aesthetic Illusion and the Breaking of Illusion in Ambiguous Film Sequences / Jocelyn Cammack
  • Architectures of Immersion: The Material Fictions of the ‘New’ Las Vegas / Laura Bieger
  • Columns of Figures as Sources of Aesthetic Illusion Browser-Based Multiplayer Online Games / Christian Wessely
  • Aesthetic Illusion in Instrumental Music? / Walter Bernhart
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index.