Aesthetic Illusion: Theoretical and Historical Approaches

Author:   Frederick Burwick ,  Walter Pape
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Edition:   Reprint 2012
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9783110117509


Pages:   487
Publication Date:   01 October 1990
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Frederick Burwick ,  Walter Pape
Publisher:   De Gruyter
Imprint:   De Gruyter
Edition:   Reprint 2012
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.810kg
ISBN:  

9783110117509


ISBN 10:   3110117509
Pages:   487
Publication Date:   01 October 1990
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available.
Language:   German

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

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