The Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and the Arts

Tomáš Koblížek is a Research Fellow in the Institute of Philosophy at the Czech Academy of Sciences, The Czech Republic.

1. Introduction
Tomáš Koblížek (Institute of Philosophy, The Czech Academy of Sciences)

PART I: Illusion and Media
2. Aesthetic Illusion(s)?
Werner Wolf (Centre for Intermediality Studies, University of Graz)
3. More Than Meets the Eye: Layers of Artistic Representation
Thomas G. Pavel (Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago)
4. Mediating Immediacy
Göran Rossholm (Department of Culture and Aesthetics, Stockholm University)
5. Neither Here nor There, but Now. Film Experience and the Aesthetic Illusion
Enrico Terrone (Department of Philosophy, University of Torino)

PART II: Illusion and the Mind
6. Reading for the Mind: Aesthetic Illusion, Fictional Characters, and the Role of Interpretation
Marco Caracciolo (Comparative Literature, University of Freiburg)
7. A Puzzle of Fiction and Cognitive Impenetrability
Fredrik Stjernberg (Department of Culture and Communication, Linköping University)
8. Illusion, Distance and Appropriation
Martin Pokorný (Comparative Literature, Charles University, Prague)
9. Fact, Fiction and Projection: The Inescapability of Austerlitz’s Impulse
Josep Corbí (Department of Metaphysics and Theory of Knowledge, University of Valencia)

PART III: Illusive Worlds
10. La Comédie Humaine and the Illusion of Reality
Lubomir Doležel (Comparative Literature, University of Toronto)
11. Fiction, Illusion, Reality and Radical Narration
Petr Kotátko (Institute of Philosophy, The Czech Academy of Sciences)
12. A Moral Life of Things: Making and Breaking of Aesthetic Illusion in Lyric Poetry
Karel Thein (Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague)
13. The Novel and the Aesthetic Illusion
Jirí Koten (Faculty of Education, University of Usti nad Labem)

PART IV: Questioning Illusion
14. How Should We Talk About Reading Experiences? Arguments and Empirical Evidence
Emily Troscianko (Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, University of Oxford)
15. Aesthetic Illusion between the Prague School and Fictional Worlds Theory
Bohumil Fort (Language Institute, The Czech Academy of Sciences)
16. Skeptical Reflections on the Concept of Aesthetic Illusion
Anders Pettersson (Department of Culture and Media Studies, Umea University)

List of Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Topics