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