Table of Contents

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