Aesthetic Illusion (PDF)

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: Derridäs 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