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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781400887880
035 _a(DE-B1597)501139
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aPlotz, John
_eautore
245 1 0 _aSemi-Detached :
_bThe Aesthetics of Virtual Experience since Dickens /
_cJohn Plotz.
264 1 _aPrinceton, NJ :
_bPrinceton University Press,
_c[2017]
264 4 _c©2018
300 _a1 online resource (344 p.) :
_b8 color illus. 35 halftones.
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIllustrations --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction: Through Bright Glass --
_tPertinent Fiction: Short Stories into Novels --
_tMediated Involvement: John Stuart Mill's Partial Sociability --
_tVisual Interlude I/ Double Visions: Pre - Raphaelite Objectivity and Its Pitfalls --
_tVirtual Provinces, Actually --
_tExperiments in Semi - Detachment --
_tVisual Interlude II/ "This New - Old Industry": William Morris's Kelmscott Press --
_tH. G. Wells, Realist of the Fantastic --
_tOvertones and Empty Rooms: Willa Cather's Layers --
_tVisual interlude III/ The Great Stone Face: Buster Keaton, Semi - Detached --
_tConclusion: Apparitional Criticism --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aWhen 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.
530 _aIssued also in print.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 27. Sep 2021)
650 0 _aLiterature
_xAesthetics.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General .
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856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9781400887880?locatt=mode:legacy
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