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Hardcover. Etat : Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardcover, vi+369 pages, illustrations, NOT ex-library. Book is clean and bright throughout with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show gentle handling wear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This is a multidisciplinary collection exploring how perception, illusion, and representation have been theorized and constructed across literature, philosophy, visual art, music, dance, and architecture. The volume traces the historical transformation of appearances, particularly from the Enlightenment through Romanticism and into postmodernism, examining how cultural forms reflect and manipulate sensory experience. The introduction positions the inquiry within a postmodern context, drawing on Umberto Eco and Jean Baudrillard to suggest that representations, once grounded in mimesis, have shifted toward simulation, eroding the distinction between real and artificial. The book addresses how aesthetic theory, science, and technology have reshaped understandings of perception, and how sensory illusions now function both as artistic devices and epistemological challenges. K. Ludwig Pfeiffer opens the first section with a philosophical reconsideration of appearances, arguing for their continued cultural and behavioral force through the idea of style as a carrier of implicit meaning. David Warren examines how different visual codes in maps and cityscapes shape our reading of spatial environments, suggesting a historical shift in how space is mentally constructed. Marian Hobson focuses on architectural illusion in the 18th century, showing how Diderot linked proportion and analogy to broader questions of truth, perception, and visual deception. The core of the volume centers on 18th- and 19th-century literature. Helmut Schneider looks at how Enlightenment aesthetics staged nature as a scene to be observed, shaped by conventions of the gaze and the theatrical. Walter Pape explores Goethe's resistance to Kantian skepticism through his use of intuitive, sense-based perception in depictions of landscape. Essays by Frederick Burwick, Reginald Foakes, and Thomas Vogler examine how Wordsworth and Coleridge used poetic form to engage with inner and outer appearances, from reflections in nature to imagined doubles, often testing the line between illusion and insight. Subsequent essays examine the performative and sensory arts. Elinor Shaffer considers how the cultural story of the "death of the artist" parallels changing views of authorship and visual authority. Barbara Maria Stafford investigates scientific demonstration tools and their crossover into aesthetic experience, including how optical devices blurred fact and fiction. Wayne Slawson shows how musical form can set up and then subvert listener expectations, creating self-contained illusions in sound. Dianne Howe traces a shift in modern dance from outward narrative to inward expression, using movement to explore internal states through physical form. The final section turns to language and visual metaphor. Donald MacKay and Toshi Konishi offer a psycholinguistic analysis of how pronoun use creates referential ambiguity, drawing links between grammar and perceptual misdirection. Murray Krieger closes the volume with a theoretical essay on how literature generates its own layers of meaning through echo, doubling, and indirection - what he calls textual shadows. Throughout, the collection revisits classical and Romantic theories, particularly those of Kant, Goethe, and Schopenhauer, highlighting their influence on later thought about perception. The period from 1750 to 1820 is presented as a key moment when scientific, artistic, and philosophical methods intersected to shape modern ideas about illusion, appearance, and representation. Topics such as analogical reasoning, visual knowledge, and sensory mediation connect the essays across disciplines, offering readers a broad yet focused set of approaches to the study of how we see and make sense of the visible world. N° de réf. du vendeur 011378
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Buch. Etat : Neu. This item is printed on demand - Print on Demand Titel. Neuware -Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Appearances and the Semiotics of Culture -- Suggestiveness or Interpretation: On the Vitality of Appearances / PFEIFFER, ¿. LUDWIG -- From Maps to Cityscapes: Reactions to Modes of Spatial Representation / WARREN, DAVID ¿ . -- What Is Wrong with Saint Peter's Or, Diderot, Analogy and Illusion in Architecture / HOBSON, MARIAN -- 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 / SCHNEIDER, HELMUT J . -- 'Die Sinne triegen nicht': Perception and Landscape in Classical Goethe / PAPE, WALTER -- Reflections in the Mirror: Wordsworth and Coleridge / BURWICK, FREDERICK -- Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Illusion / FOAKES, REGINALD A . -- Seeking the Visible World: Wordsworth's Real Illusions / VOGLER, THOMAS -- 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 / SHAFFER, ¿. S. -- Instructive Games: Apparatus and the Experimental Aesthetics of Imposture / STAFFORD, BARBARA MARIA -- Forked Tongues: Structural Illusions in Music / SLAWSON, WAYNE -- Outside In: The Movement from Exterior to Interior Illusions in Dance / HOWE, DIANNE S. -- Visual Metaphors and Textual Shadows -- The Selection of Pronouns in Spoken Language Production: An Illusion of Reference / MACKAY, DONALD G . / KONISHI, TOSHI -- The Anthropological Persistence of the Aesthetic: Real Shadows and Textual Shadows, Real Texts and Shadow Texts / KRIEGER, MURRAY -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- Index -- BackmatterDe Gruyter Mouton, Genthiner Straße 13, 10785 Berlin 376 pp. Englisch. N° de réf. du vendeur 9783110145809
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