Aesthetic illusion. Theoretical and historical approaches.

Sehr gutes Ex. - The publication of Gombrich's Art and Illusion (1960) stimulated renewed inquiry into the problem of illusion, and a number of conflicting interpretations have appeared in subsequent years. Many of these, however, have been limited to applications in the Fine Arts, or they have confined the inquiry to phenomenological-hermeneutic approaches - for example, the two volumes in the series Poetik und Hermeneutik: Nachahmung und Illusion (1964) and Funktion des Fiktiven (1983); also the volume Asthetischer Schein (1982) in the series Kolloquium Kunst und Philosophie. Murray Krieger's Poetic Presence and Illusion (1979) remains the major effort in English to provide theoretical and methodological direction to the analysis of illusion in literature. The purpose of the present volume is to discuss theoretical and historical approaches to aesthetic illusion and to address questions of illusion and ideology in terms of social and cultural concepts of reality in relation to the illusory presumptions of literature and the nature of reader/audience response. It is divided into four sections. The first section examines illusion as a fundamental issue in the social as well as the cognitive sciences; the essays in this section will address illusion as an attribute of perception shaped by external as well as internal factors. The second section will address the problem of illusion in language theory, semiotics, rhetoric, and aesthetics; the essays are addressed to the constituency of the art object or literary work (such topics as semiotic duality and disparity, affective and suasory strategies in rhetoric and in narrative development) as well as to the nature of the aesthetic experience (vicarious, sympathic or empathic response; modes of identification and alienation; game or play involvement; degrees or levels of illusion - fantasi2ing, erotic indulgence, enthusiasm, delusion). The third section will provide critical examination of the formal conditions, expectations, and manifestations of illusion as developed within different genres. The fourth section surveys historical permutations in the literary uses of illusions; changes are documented with representative studies in major periods (Renaissance, Baroque, Enlightenment, Romantic, Modern). - The volume concludes with a bibliography (that also includes some major reference works on illusion etc. not cited in the individual articles) and an index; the bibliography contains the full data of all titles cited by the contributors, the footnotes give only short-titles. - WALTER PAPE/FREDERICK BURWICK -- Aesthetic Illusion -- Illusion and the Cognitive Sciences -- PAUL WATZLAWICK -- The Illusion of 'Illusion' ' -- LAWRENCE E MARKS -- Synaesthesia: Perception and Metaphor -- BENNETTA JULES-ROSETTE -- The Aesthetics of Communications and the Reproduction of Cultural -- Forms: The Case of Tourist Art -- Aesthetics and the Referentiality of Symbols and Signs -- W J THOMAS MITCHELL -- Looking at Animals Looking: Art, Illusion, and Power -- MARC E BLANCHARD -- Aesthetic and Illusion of Daily Life -- K LUDWIG PFEIFFER -- Fiction: On the Fate of a Concept Between Philosophy and Literary -- Theory -- JOCHEN SCHULTE-SASSE -- Aesthetic Illusion in the Eighteenth Century -- FREDERICK BURWICK -- The Grotesque: Illusion vs Delusion -- ELINOR S SHAFFER -- Illusion and Imagination: Derrida's Parergon and Coleridge's Aid -- to Reflection Revisionary Readings of Kantian Formalist Aesthetics -- BARBARA MARIA STAFFORD -- "Fantastic" Images: From Unenlightening to Enlightening "Appearances" Meant to Be Seen in the Dark -- Illusion and Literary Genre -- MURRAY KRIEGER -- Representation in Words and in Drama: The Illusion of the Natural -- Sign -- REGINALD A FOAKES -- Making and Breaking Dramatic Illusion -- WALTER PAPE -- Comic Illusion and Illusion in Comedy: The Discourse of Emotional -- Freedom -- HELLMUT THOMKE -- Appearance in Poetry: Lyric Illusion? -- WULF KOEPKE -- Epistolary Fiction and Its Impact on Readers: Reality and Illusion -- VOLKER NEUHAUS -- Illusion and Narrative Technique: The Nineteenth-Century Historical Novel Between Truth and Fiction -- WERNER WOLF -- Illusion and Breaking Illusion in Twentieth-Century Fiction -- Historical Changes in the Literary Uses of Illusions -- WERNER HABICHT -- "And Mock Our Eyes with Air": Air and Stage Illusion in Shakespearean Drama -- JANE K BROWN -- Double Plotting in Shakespeare's Comedies: The Case of Twelfth -- Night -- EUGENE R CUNNAR -- Illusion and Spiritual Perception in Donne's Poetry -- THOMAS MCFARLAND -- Imagination and Illusion in English Romanticism -- JACK H HAEGER -- "The Picture of the Mind": Eidetic Images and Pictorial Projection -- in Wordsworth -- PHILIP V BRADY -- 'Verfremdung' and Illusion in Brecht's Drama -- SUSAN BRIENZA -- Sam Shepard, Anti-Illusion, and Metadrama: Plays on Writing, -- Acting, and Character -- Bibliography -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sorces. ISBN 3110117509