Frederick Burwick & Walter Pape 
Aesthetic Illusion [PDF ebook] 
Theoretical and Historical Approaches

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