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Immersion and Distance : Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and Other Media.
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 intera...
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| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam :
Editions Rodopi,
1905.
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| Series: | Studies in Intermediality (SIM)
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Aesthetic Illusion; Part 1: Aesthetic Illusion
- Theoretical Perspectives; On the Emergence of Aesthetic Illusion An Evolutionary Perspective; The Role of Participation in Aesthetic Illusion; Impossible Worlds and Aesthetic Illusion; Part 2: Aesthetic Illusion in Literature; Aesthetic Illusion in Theatre and Drama An Attempt at Application; Aesthetic Illusion as an Effect of Lyric Poetry?; Part 3: Aesthetic Illusion in the Visual Arts.
- Aesthetic Illusion and the Breaking of Illusion in Painting (Fourteenth to Twentieth Centuries)Wilful Deceptions Aesthetic Illusion at the Interface of Painting, Photography and Digital Images; Part 4: Aesthetic Illusion in VariousOther Media; Aesthetic Illusion and the Breaking of Illusion in Ambiguous Film Sequences; Architectures of ImmersionThe Material Fictions of the 'New' Las Vegas; Columns of Figures as Sources of Aesthetic Illusion Browser-Based Multiplayer Online Games; Aesthetic Illusion in Instrumental Music?; Notes on Contributors; Index.