Reflecting senses : perception and appearance in literature, culture, and the arts

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Reflecting senses : perception and appearance in literature, culture, and the arts

edited by Walter Pape and Frederick Burwick

W. de Gruyter, 1995

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-341) and index

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i-iv -- Contents -- Introduction -- Appearances and the Semiotics of Culture -- Suggestiveness or Interpretation: On the Vitality of Appearances -- From Maps to Cityscapes: Reactions to Modes of Spatial Representation -- What Is Wrong with Saint Peter's? Or, Diderot, Analogy and Illusion in Architecture -- Visual Perception and Verbal Representation in Eighteenth an Nineteenth Century Literature -- The Staging of the Gaze: Aesthetic Illusion and the Scene of Nature in the Eighteenth Century -- "Die Sinne triegen nicht": Perception and Landscape in Classical Goethe -- Reflections in the Mirror: Wordsworth and Coleridge -- Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Illusion -- Seeking the Visible World: Wordsworth's Real Illusions -- Sensory and Illusory Effects in Art, Music, and Dance -- The Death of the Artist and the Birth of Art History: Appearance, Concept, and Cultural Myth -- Instructive Games: Apparatus and the Experimental Aesthetics of Imposture -- Forked Tongues: Structural Illusions in Music -- Outside In: The Movement from Exterior to Interior Illusions in Dance -- Visual Metaphors and Textual Shadows -- The Selection of Pronouns in Spoken Language Production: An Illusion of Reference -- The Anthropological Persistence of the Aesthetic: Real Shadows and Textual Shadows, Real Texts and Shadow Texts -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Index -- 370

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