An aesthetic distance.separates the human situation which the reader appears to be contemplating from such a situation in real life.

And perhaps my cool aesthetic distance itself does more to convey the Arctic climate of our family than any particular literary comparison.

When a reader becomes fully engrossed in the illusory narrative world of a book, the author has achieved a close aesthetic distance.

The notion of aesthetic distance derives from an article by William Bullough published in 1912.

Authors of film, fiction, drama, and poetry evoke different levels of aesthetic distance.

Many examples of violating the aesthetic distance may also be found in meta-fiction.

In film, the aesthetic distance is often violated unintentionally.

Critics of the featherless chicken said that the public would resist the idea because it collapsed the aesthetic distance between the farm and the fridge.

It is one of many scenes of violence in which the camera maintains a discreet aesthetic distance from the carnage.

What he came up with was an eerie, uneasy elegy - one that unfortunately held the film at a safe aesthetic distance.