The Aesthetic Illusion In Literature And The Arts

Author : Tomáš Koblížek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350032590

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The Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts by Tomáš Koblížek Pdf

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 keeping a distance from it. Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts is an in-depth study of the main questions surrounding this experience of art as reality. Beginning with an introduction providing historical background to modern discussions of illusion, it deals with a wide range of theoretical issues. The collection explores the nature and function of the aesthetic illusion as well as the role of affect and emotion, the implications of aesthetic illusion for the theory of fiction, the variable forms of aesthetic illusion and its relationship to other components of aesthetic response. Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts brings together a team of scholars from philosophy, literature and art and presents an interdisciplinary examination of a concept lying at the heart of contemporary aesthetics.

Author : Werner Wolf,Walter Bernhart,Andreas Mahler
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789401209243

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Immersion and Distance. by Werner Wolf,Walter Bernhart,Andreas Mahler Pdf

Readers who appear to be lost in a storyworld, members of theatre or cinema audiences who are moved to tears while watching a performance, beholders of paintings who are absorbed by the representations in front of them, players of computer games entranced by the fictional worlds in which they interactively participate – all of these mental states of imaginative immersion are variants of ‘aesthetic illusion’, as long as the recipients, although thus immersed, are still residually aware that they are experiencing not real life but life-like representations created by artefacts. Aesthetic illusion is one of the most forceful effects of reception processes in representational media and thus constitutes a powerful allurement to expose ourselves, again and again to, e.g., printed stories, pictures and films, be they factual or fictional. In contrast to traditional discussions of this phenomenon, which tend to focus on one medium or genre from one discipline only, the present volume explores aesthetic illusion, as well as its reverse side, the breaking of illusion, from a highly innovative multidisciplinary and transmedial perspective. The essays assembled stem from disciplines that range from literary theory to art history and include contributions on drama, lyric poetry, the visual arts, photography, architecture, instrumental music and computer games, as well as reflections on the cognitive foundations of aesthetic illusion from an evolutionary perspective. The contributions to individual media and aspects of aesthetic illusion are prefaced by a detailed theoretical introduction. Owing to its transmedial and multidisciplinary scope, the volume will be relevant to students and scholars from a wide variety of fields: cultural history at large, intermediality and media studies, as well as, more particularly, literary studies, music, film, and art history.

Author : Tomáš Koblížek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781350032606

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The Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts by Tomáš Koblížek Pdf

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 keeping a distance from it. Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts is an in-depth study of the main questions surrounding this experience of art as reality. Beginning with an introduction providing historical background to modern discussions of illusion, it deals with a wide range of theoretical issues. The collection explores the nature and function of the aesthetic illusion as well as the role of affect and emotion, the implications of aesthetic illusion for the theory of fiction, the variable forms of aesthetic illusion and its relationship to other components of aesthetic response. Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts brings together a team of scholars from philosophy, literature and art and presents an interdisciplinary examination of a concept lying at the heart of contemporary aesthetics.

Author : Frederick Burwick,Walter Pape
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110884937

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Aesthetic Illusion by Frederick Burwick,Walter Pape Pdf

Author : Werner Wolf,Walter Bernhart,Andreas Mahler
Publisher : Editions Rodopi
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : ART
ISBN : 1461936187

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Immersion and Distance: Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and Other Media.: Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and Other Media. by Werner Wolf,Walter Bernhart,Andreas Mahler Pdf

Readers who appear to be lost in a storyworld, members of theatre or cinema audiences who are moved to tears while watching a performance, beholders of paintings who are absorbed by the representations in front of them, players of computer games entranced by the fictional worlds in which they interactively participate - all of these mental states of imaginative immersion are variants of 'aesthetic illusion', as long as the recipients, although thus immersed, are still residually aware that they are experiencing not real life but life-like representations created by artefacts. Aesthetic illusion is one of the most forceful effects of reception processes in representational media and thus constitutes a powerful allurement to expose ourselves, again and again to, e.g., printed stories, pictures and films, be they factual or fictional.

Author : Peter Kivy
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781444397659

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Once-Told Tales by Peter Kivy Pdf

Drawing comparisons with other art forms, this book examines the role of aesthetic features in silent reading, such as narrative structure, and the core experience of reading a novel as a story rather than a scholarly exercise. Focuses on the experience of the art form known as the novel Uses the more common perspective of a reader who reads to be told a story, rather than for scholarly or critical analysis Draws comparisons with experience of the other arts, music in particular Explores the different effects of a range of narrative approaches

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004410350

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Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research by Anonim Pdf

This commemorative volume offers a retrospective of the discipline as mirrored in the series Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft since its founding in 1993. Leading scholars examine issues of world literature, the history of ideas, gender studies, aesthetics and literary translation.

Author : Peter Hühn,John Pier,Wolf Schmid
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 914 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110617481

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Handbook of Diachronic Narratology by Peter Hühn,John Pier,Wolf Schmid Pdf

This handbook brings together 42 contributions by leading narratologists devoted to the study of narrative devices in European literatures from antiquity to the present. Each entry examines the use of a specific narrative device in one or two national literatures across the ages, whether in successive or distant periods of time. Through the analysis of representative texts in a range of European languages, the authors compellingly trace the continuities and evolution of storytelling devices, as well as their culture-specific manifestations. In response to Monika Fludernik’s 2003 call for a "diachronization of narratology," this new handbook complements existing synchronic approaches that tend to be ahistorical in their outlook, and departs from postclassical narratologies that often prioritize thematic and ideological concerns. A new direction in narrative theory, diachronic narratology explores previously overlooked questions, from the evolution of free indirect speech from the Middle Ages to the present, to how changes in narrative sequence encoded the shift from a sacred to a secular worldview in early modern Romance literatures. An invaluable new resource for literary theorists, historians, comparatists, discourse analysts, and linguists.

Author : Frederick Burwick,Walter Pape,University of California (System). Humanities Research Institute
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110117509

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Aesthetic Illusion by Frederick Burwick,Walter Pape,University of California (System). Humanities Research Institute Pdf

Author : Frederick Burwick
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271038803

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Mimesis and Its Romantic Reflections by Frederick Burwick Pdf

In Romantic theories of art and literature, the notion of mimesis&—defined as art&’s reflection of the external world&—became introspective and self-reflexive as poets and artists sought to represent the act of creativity itself. Frederick Burwick seeks to elucidate this Romantic aesthetic, first by offering an understanding of key Romantic mimetic concepts and then by analyzing manifestations of the mimetic process in literary works of the period. Burwick explores the mimetic concepts of &"art for art's sake,&" &"Idem et Alter,&" and &"palingenesis of mind as art&" by drawing on the theories of Philo of Alexandria, Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, Friedrich Schiller, Friederich Wilhelm Joseph von Schelling, Thomas De Quincey, and Germaine de Sta&ël. Having established the philosophical bases of these key mimetic concepts, Burwick analyzes manifestations of mimesis in the literature of the period, including ekphrasis in the work of Thomas De Quincey, mirrored images in the poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth, and the twice-told tale in the novels of Charles Brockden Brown, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and James Hogg. Although artists of this period have traditionally been dismissed in discussions of mimesis, Burwick demonstrates that mimetic concepts comprised a major component of the Romantic aesthetic.

Author : Martin Seel
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804743819

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Aesthetics of Appearing by Martin Seel Pdf

This book proposes that aesthetics begin not with concepts of being or semblance, but with a concept of appearing. Seel examines the existential and cultural meaning of aesthetic experience. In doing so, he brings aesthetics and philosophy of art together again, which in continental as well as analytical thinking have been more and more separated in the recent decades.

Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1580 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015038642420

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy Pdf

Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1432 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UCAL:$C134797

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1548 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : SRLF:E0000738492

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A-E by Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy Pdf

Author : Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1328 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Subject headings, Library of Congress
ISBN : UOM:39015038642198

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Library of Congress Subject Headings by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office Pdf