Aesthetic Illusion

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Frederick Burwick, Professor Emeritus at UCLA, has taught courses on Romantic drama and directed student performances of a dozen plays.

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Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Aesthetic Illusion / PAPE, WALTER / BURWICK, FREDERICK -- Illusion and the Cognitive Sciences -- The Illusion of 'Illusion' / WATZLAWICK, PAUL -- Synaesthesia: Perception and Metaphor / MARKS, LAWRENCE . -- The Aesthetics of Communication and the Reproduction of Cultural Forms: The Case of Tourist Art / JULES-ROSETTE, BENNETTA -- Aesthetics and the Referentiality of Symbols and Signs -- Looking at Animals Looking: Art, Illusion, and Power / MITCHELL, W. J . THOMAS -- Aesthetic and Illusion of Daily Life / BLANCHARD, MARC . -- Fiction: On the Fate of a Concept Between Philosophy and Literary Theory / PFEIFFER, . LUDWIG -- Aesthetic Illusion in the Eighteenth Century / SCHULTE-SASSE, JOCHEN -- The Grotesque: Illusion vs. Delusion / BURWICK, FREDERICK -- Illusion and Imagination: Derrida's Parergon and Coleridge's Aid to Reflection. Revisionary readings of Kantian formalist aesthetics / SHAFFER, ELINOR S. -- "Fantastic" Images: From Unenlightening to Enlightening "Appearances" Meant to Be Seen in the Dark / STAFFORD, BARBARA MARIA -- Illusion and Literary Genre -- Representation in Words and in Drama: The Illusion of the Natural Sign / KRIEGER, MURRAY -- Making and Breaking Dramatic Illusion / FOAKES, REGINALD A. -- Comic Illusion and Illusion in Comedy: The Discourse of Emotional Freedom / PAPE, WALTER -- Appearance in Poetry: Lyric Illusion? / THOMKE, HELLMUT -- Epistolary Fiction and Its Impact on Readers: Reality and Illusion / KOEPKE, WULF -- Illusion and Narrative Technique: The Nineteenth-Century Historical Novel Between Truth and Fiction / NEUHAUS, VOLKER -- Illusion and Breaking Illusion in Twentieth-Century Fiction / WOLF, WERNER -- Historical Changes in the Literary Uses of Illusions -- "And Mock Our Eyes with Air": Air and Stage Illusion in Shakespearean Drama / HABICHT, WERNER -- Double Plotting in Shakespeare's Comedies: The Case of Twelfth Night / BROWN, JANE . -- Illusion and Spiritual Perception in Donne's Poetry / CUNNAR, EUGENE R . -- Imagination and Illusion in English Romanticism / MCFARLAND, THOMAS -- "The Picture of the Mind": Eidetic Images and Pictorial Projection in Wordsworth / HAEGER, JACK . -- 'Verfremdung' and Illusion in Brecht's Drama / BRADY, PHILIP V. -- Sam Shepard, Anti-Illusion, and Metadrama: Plays on Writing, Acting, and Character / BRIENZA, SUSAN -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Index -- Backmatter

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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