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Semi-Detached : The Aesthetics of Virtual Experience since Dickens / John Plotz.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) : 8 color illus. 35 halftonesContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780691159461
  • 9781400887880
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 801/.93 23
LOC classification:
  • PN45
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Through Bright Glass -- Pertinent Fiction: Short Stories into Novels -- Mediated Involvement: John Stuart Mill's Partial Sociability -- Visual Interlude I/ Double Visions: Pre - Raphaelite Objectivity and Its Pitfalls -- Virtual Provinces, Actually -- Experiments in Semi - Detachment -- Visual Interlude II/ "This New - Old Industry": William Morris's Kelmscott Press -- H. G. Wells, Realist of the Fantastic -- Overtones and Empty Rooms: Willa Cather's Layers -- Visual interlude III/ The Great Stone Face: Buster Keaton, Semi - Detached -- Conclusion: Apparitional Criticism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: When you are half lost in a work of art, what happens to the half left behind? Semi-Detached delves into this state of being: what it means to be within and without our social and physical milieu, at once interacting and drifting away, and how it affects our ideas about aesthetics. The allure of many modern aesthetic experiences, this book argues, is that artworks trigger and provide ways to make sense of this oscillating, in-between place. John Plotz focuses on Victorian and early modernist writers and artists who understood their work as tapping into, amplifying, or giving shape to a suspended duality of experience.The book begins with the decline of the romantic tale, the rise of realism, and John Stuart Mill's ideas about social interaction and subjective perception. Plotz examines Pre-Raphaelite paintings that take semi-detached states of attention as their subject and novels that treat provincial subjects as simultaneously peripheral and central. He discusses how realist writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James show how consciousness can be in more than one place at a time; how the work of William Morris demonstrates the shifting forms of semi-detachment in print and visual media; and how Willa Cather created a form of modernism that connected aesthetic dreaming and reality. Plotz concludes with a look at early cinema and the works of Buster Keaton, who found remarkable ways to portray semi-detachment on screen.In a time of cyberdependency and virtual worlds, when it seems that attention to everyday reality is stretching thin, Semi-Detached takes a historical and critical look at the halfway-thereness that audiences have long comprehended and embraced in their aesthetic encounters.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Through Bright Glass -- Pertinent Fiction: Short Stories into Novels -- Mediated Involvement: John Stuart Mill's Partial Sociability -- Visual Interlude I/ Double Visions: Pre - Raphaelite Objectivity and Its Pitfalls -- Virtual Provinces, Actually -- Experiments in Semi - Detachment -- Visual Interlude II/ "This New - Old Industry": William Morris's Kelmscott Press -- H. G. Wells, Realist of the Fantastic -- Overtones and Empty Rooms: Willa Cather's Layers -- Visual interlude III/ The Great Stone Face: Buster Keaton, Semi - Detached -- Conclusion: Apparitional Criticism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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When you are half lost in a work of art, what happens to the half left behind? Semi-Detached delves into this state of being: what it means to be within and without our social and physical milieu, at once interacting and drifting away, and how it affects our ideas about aesthetics. The allure of many modern aesthetic experiences, this book argues, is that artworks trigger and provide ways to make sense of this oscillating, in-between place. John Plotz focuses on Victorian and early modernist writers and artists who understood their work as tapping into, amplifying, or giving shape to a suspended duality of experience.The book begins with the decline of the romantic tale, the rise of realism, and John Stuart Mill's ideas about social interaction and subjective perception. Plotz examines Pre-Raphaelite paintings that take semi-detached states of attention as their subject and novels that treat provincial subjects as simultaneously peripheral and central. He discusses how realist writers such as Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Henry James show how consciousness can be in more than one place at a time; how the work of William Morris demonstrates the shifting forms of semi-detachment in print and visual media; and how Willa Cather created a form of modernism that connected aesthetic dreaming and reality. Plotz concludes with a look at early cinema and the works of Buster Keaton, who found remarkable ways to portray semi-detachment on screen.In a time of cyberdependency and virtual worlds, when it seems that attention to everyday reality is stretching thin, Semi-Detached takes a historical and critical look at the halfway-thereness that audiences have long comprehended and embraced in their aesthetic encounters.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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