The Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts [Hardcover]

The notion of aesthetic illusion relates to a number of art forms and media. Defined as a pleasurable mental state that emerges during the reception of texts and artefacts, it amounts to the reader's or viewer's sense of having entered the represented world while at the same time keeping a distance from it.Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Artsis an in-depth study of the main questions surrounding this experience of art as reality.

Beginning with an introduction providing historical background to modern discussions of illusion, it deals with a wide range of theoretical issues. The collection explores the nature and function of the aesthetic illusion as well as the role of affect and emotion, the implications of aesthetic illusion for the theory of fiction, the variable forms of aesthetic illusion and its relationship to other components of aesthetic response.Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Artsbrings together a team of scholars from philosophy, literature and art and presents an interdisciplinary examination of a concept lying at the heart of contemporary aesthetics.

[A] valuable contribution to the developing philosophical literature on immersion. If you're interested in the topic, or in closely-related issues such as fictional worlds, it should be on your reading list. Notre Dame Philosophical ReviewsTom?a Kobl?~ekis a Research Fellow in the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences, The Czech Republic.

1. Introduction
Tom?a Kobl?~ek (Institute of Philosophy, The Czech Academy of Sciences)

PART I: Illusion and Media
2. Aesthetic Illusion(s)?
Werner Wolf (Centre for Intermediality Studies, University of Graz)
3. More Than Meets the Eye: Layers of Artistic Representation
Thomas G. Pavel (Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago)
4. Mediating Immediacy
G?ran Rossholm (Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University)
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