Table of Contents
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
