The aesthetic illusion in literature and the arts /
"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 kee...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2017.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The aesthetic illusion: The beginnings of themodern debate; 2. Today debate; 3. The present volume; Note; References; Part One Illusion and Media; 1 Aesthetic Illusion(s)?: Toward a Media-Conscious Theory of Media-Elicited Immersion as a Transmedial Phenomenon ; 1. The problem of aesthetic illusion from a transmedial point of view: One phenomenon with variations across media or individu.
- 2. Preliminary theoretical remarks: The nature of aesthetic illusion and the six principles informing illusionist works (as de2.1 Definition of aesthetic illusion; 2.2 The nature of aesthetic illusion; 2.3 Factors contributing to aesthetic illusion; 2.4 Typical features of illusionist representations and the principles of illusion-making: The case of fiction; 2.5 Criteria of transmedial comparison and methodology; 3. The medial profile of fiction and its relevance to eliciting aesthetic illusion; 4. The medial profile of feature film and its relevance to eliciting aesthetic illusion.
- 5. The medial profile of visual art (painting) and its relevance to eliciting aesthetic illusion6. Results: Aesthetic illusion(s)?-elements of a transmedial theory of aesthetic illusion and perspectives of future research; Notes; References; 2 More than Meets the Eye: Layers of Artistic Representation ; Note; References; 3 Mediating Immediacy; 1. Terms and cases; 2. Illusions: Forgeries; 3. Illusion: Literary dummies and fiction; 4. Triggers of immediacy; 5. Literary illusions?; 6. Immediacy: Functions; 7. A comment on self-awareness and self-oblivion; Notes; References.
- 4 Neither Here nor There, but Now: Film Experience and the Aesthetic Illusion 1. Introduction: The Zhivago case; 2. Aesthetic illusion in pictures; 3. Aesthetic illusion in films; 4. The claim of presentness; 5. The imagined observer hypothesis; 6. Conclusion: Back to Zhivago; Notes; References; Part Two Illusion and the Mind; 5 Reading for the Mind: Aesthetic Illusion, Fictional Characters, and the Role of Interpretation ; 1. Introduction; 2. Characters, "twofoldness," and the character-centered illusion; 3. Negotiating meaning in character engagements.
- 3.1 Narratology, mind-reading, and interpretation3.2 Interpretive strategies; 4. Conclusion: A cognitive workout?; Notes; References; 6 A Puzzle of Fiction and Cognitive Impenetrability; 1. Introduction; 2. The paradox; 3. How bad is the situation?; 4. Alief and belief; 5. Illusions and cognitive architecture; 6. Cognitive illusions; 7. Cognitive impenetrability; 8. And fiction?; Notes; References; 7 Illusion, Distance, and Appropriation; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Putative facts; 3. Corroboration and interest; 4. Justifiability; 5. Characters; 6. Two movements; 7. A definition; 8. Consequences.