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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.
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Aesthetics, Illusion in literature, Arts, Themes, motives, Modern AestheticsShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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Immersion and Distance: Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and Other Media
2013, BRILL
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Immersion and Distance: Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and Other Media
2013, Rodopi
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