Immersion and distance : aesthetic illusion in literature and other media /

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Imprint:Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2013.
©2013
Description:1 online resource (vi, 390 pages).
Language:English
Series:Studies in intermediality (SIM) ; 6
Studies in intermediality ; 6.
Subject:Illusion in literature.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Arts -- Themes, motives.
ART -- General.
Aesthetics, Modern.
Arts -- Themes, motives.
Illusion in literature.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11202376
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Other authors / contributors:Wolf, Werner, 1955- editor.
Bernhart, Walter, editor.
Mahler, Andreas, editor.
ISBN:9781461936183
1461936187
9789042036574
9042036575
9789401209243
9401209243
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
Summary: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.
Other form:Print version: Wolf. Immersion and distance. Aesthetic illusion in literature and other media. Amsterdam : Rodopi B.V. 2013 9789042036574