Aesthetic Illusion

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

Zusammenfassung
The series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift fr die alttestamentliche Wissenschaft (BZAW) covers all areas of research into the Old Testament, focusing on the Hebrew Bible, its early and later forms in Ancient Judaism, as well as its branching into many neighboring cultures of the Ancient Near East and the Greco-Roman world.