05424nam 2200697Ia 450 991045433120332120200520144314.01-281-95980-497866119598070-8213-7801-5(CKB)1000000000721293(EBL)459816(OCoLC)314427781(SSID)ssj0000087113(PQKBManifestationID)11111289(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000087113(PQKBWorkID)10031660(PQKB)10603347(MiAaPQ)EBC459816(Au-PeEL)EBL459816(CaPaEBR)ebr10269614(CaONFJC)MIL195980(EXLCZ)99100000000072129320090218d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrGlobal economic prospects[electronic resource] commodities at the crossroadsWashington, DC World Bank20091 online resource (202 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8213-7799-X Includes bibliographical references.Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Overview; Figure O.1 The recent commodity boom was the largest and longest of any boom since 1900; Figure O.2 Real commodity prices in local currency units increased by between 75 and 150 percent but have fallen since; Figure O.3 Slower growth should ease commodity demand; Figure O.4 Technological progress has reduced the quantity of commodities used per unit of GDP; Figure O.5 Oil prices are having a direct impact on food prices; Figure O.6 On average, poor countries are dependent on commodities but relatively resource poorFigure O.7 Primary commodity exporters are exhibiting fewer signs of the behaviors linked to the" resource curse"Figure O.8 Exchange rates, inflation, and government expenditures in new versus established oil exporters, 2001-06; Table O.1 Food price hikes and consumption shares vary by region; Table O.2 Higher food prices have increased both the incidence and severity of poverty worldwide; Chapter 1 Prospects for the Global Economy; Table 1.1 The global outlook in summary; Figure 1.1 GDP growth; Box 1.1 Chronology of recent developments in the financial crisisFigure 1.2 Emerging market equities are hit hard as turbulence evolves to crisis Figure 1.3 Emerging-market bond spreads widen, especially for corporates; Figure 1.4 Private debt and equity flows decline by a third in 2008; Figure 1.5 Change in GDP in the United States, Europe, and Japan; Figure 1.6 The contribution of U.S. domestic demand to GDP growth; Table 1.2 High-income OECD countries: growth and related indicators; Figure 1.7 U.S. household wealth falls sharply in the last quarters; Figure 1.8 GDP to decline across the OECDFigure 1.9 East Asian countries show steep falloff in output growth Figure 1.10 Output growth in Latin America, South Asia, and Europe and Central Asia is fading; Figure 1.11 Investment was the driving force for growth in developing countries; Table 1.3 Developing regions: growth and related indicators; Figure 1.12 Developing-country GDP growth is expected to fall below 5 percent in 2009; Figure 1.13 Headline inflation is easing across industrial countries; Figure 1.14 Inflation in emerging markets surged on higher food and energy pricesBox 1.2 Commodity prices and inflation in developing countries Figure 1.15 Key developments in 2008 for East Asia and the Pacific; Figure 1.16 Sovereign bond spreads widen across Europe and Central Asia; Figure 1.17 In Latin America and the Caribbean, current accounts of largest economies diverge; Figure 1.18 Oil revenues, recovery from drought underpin growth in the Middle East and North Africa in 2008; Figure 1.19 South Asian production slips in the last months; Figure 1.20 In Sub-Saharan Africa, primary commodity exports increased as prices surgedFigure 1.21 World trade is expected to decline in 2009 for the first time since 1982The eruption of the worldwide financial crisis has radically recast prospects for the world economy. Global Economic Prospects 2009 analyzes the implications of the crisis for low- and middle-income countries, including an in-depth look at long-term prospects for global commodity markets and the policies of both commodity producing and consuming nations. Developing countries face sharply higher borrowing costs and reduced access to capital, cutting into their capacity to finance investment spending. The looming recession presents new risks, coming as it does on the heels of the recent food andEconomic forecastingDeveloping countriesEconomic forecastingEconomic history1990-International economic relationsDeveloping countriesEconomic conditionsElectronic books.Economic forecastingEconomic forecasting.Economic historyInternational economic relations.330.91724222222World Bank.MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454331203321Global economic prospects1130978UNINA05010oam 2200625Ia 450 991077997420332120231016230746.01-4619-3618-794-012-0924-310.1163/9789401209243(CKB)2550000001108860(EBL)1336278(OCoLC)855504870(SSID)ssj0001079679(PQKBManifestationID)11611330(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001079679(PQKBWorkID)11068067(PQKB)11441053(MiAaPQ)EBC1336278(OCoLC)842388299(OCoLC)844730067(nllekb)BRILL9789401209243(Au-PeEL)EBL1336278(CaPaEBR)ebr10738835(CaONFJC)MIL508947(EXLCZ)99255000000110886020130411d2013 my 0engur|n|---|||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierImmersion and distance aesthetic illusion in literature and other media /edited by Werner Wolf, Walter Bernhart and Andreas MahlerAmsterdam ;New York Rodopi20131 online resource (388 pages)Studies in intermediality,1871-8787 ;690-420-3657-5 1-299-77696-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preliminary Material --Aesthetic Illusion /Werner Wolf --On the Emergence of Aesthetic Illusion An Evolutionary Perspective /Katja Mellmann --The Role of Participation in Aesthetic Illusion /Richard J. Gerrig and Matthew A. Bezdek --Pictures and Hobby Horses: Make-Believe beyond Childhood /Kendall L. Walton --Impossible Worlds and Aesthetic Illusion /Marie-Laure Ryan --Aesthetic Illusion in Theatre and Drama An Attempt at Application /Andreas Mahler --Aesthetic Illusion as an Effect of Lyric Poetry? /Werner Wolf --Aesthetic Illusion and the Breaking of Illusion in Painting (Fourteenth to Twentieth Centuries) /Götz Pochat --Wilful Deceptions Aesthetic Illusion at the Interface of Painting, Photography and Digital Images /Katharina Bantleon and Ulrich Tragatschnig --Aesthetic Illusion and the Breaking of Illusion in Ambiguous Film Sequences /Jocelyn Cammack --Architectures of Immersion: The Material Fictions of the ‘New’ Las Vegas /Laura Bieger --Columns of Figures as Sources of Aesthetic Illusion Browser-Based Multiplayer Online Games /Christian Wessely --Aesthetic Illusion in Instrumental Music? /Walter Bernhart --Notes on Contributors --Index.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 thus immersed, are still residually aware that they are experiencing not real life but life-like representations created by artefacts. Aesthetic illusion is one of the most forceful effects of reception processes in representational media and thus constitutes a powerful allurement to expose ourselves, again and again to, e.g., printed stories, pictures and films, be they factual or fictional. In contrast to traditional discussions of this phenomenon, which tend to focus on one medium or genre from one discipline only, the present volume explores aesthetic illusion, as well as its reverse side, the breaking of illusion, from a highly innovative multidisciplinary and transmedial perspective. The essays assembled stem from disciplines that range from literary theory to art history and include contributions on drama, lyric poetry, the visual arts, photography, architecture, instrumental music and computer games, as well as reflections on the cognitive foundations of aesthetic illusion from an evolutionary perspective. The contributions to individual media and aspects of aesthetic illusion are prefaced by a detailed theoretical introduction. Owing to its transmedial and multidisciplinary scope, the volume will be relevant to students and scholars from a wide variety of fields: cultural history at large, intermediality and media studies, as well as, more particularly, literary studies, music, film, and art history.Studies in Intermediality6.Illusion in literatureAestheticsIllusion in literature.Aesthetics.111.85Wolf Werner1955-1488009Bernhart Walter1488010MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910779974203321Immersion and distance3819630UNINA