Semi-detached : the aesthetics of virtual experience since Dickens
Plotz, John
When you are half lost in a work of art, what happens to the half left behind? [This book] 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. This 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 foundremarkable ways to portray semi-detachemnt on screen. -- Založnikova predstavitev
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; adult, serious
Publication and manufacture - Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2018]
OHK - Primerj. knjiž. in lit. teor. 0000012013 821.111.09 PLOTZ J. Semi-detached
OHK - Primerj. knjiž. in lit. teor. 12013 821.111.09 PLOTZ J. Semi-detached
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