Immersion and Distance: Aesthetic Illusion in Literature ...
Wolf, Werner / Bernhart, Walter / Mahler, Andreas![Immersion and Distance: Aesthetic Illusion in Literature and Other Media](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/147/14730773/CHSBZCOP0314730773.jpg)
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...