Semi-detached : the aesthetics of virtual experience since Dickens /

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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 man...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Plotz, John, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2017.
Subjects:
Literature > Aesthetics.
Littérature > Esthétique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Semiotics & Theory.
ART > Subjects & Themes > General.
Moderne
Film.
Realismus
Literatur
Kunst
Ästhetik
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Through Bright Glass
  • 1. Pertinent Fiction: Short Stories into Novels
  • 2. Mediated Involvement: John Stuart Millâ#x80;#x99;s Partial Sociability
  • 3. Visual Interlude I / Double Visions: Pre-Raphaelite Objectivity and Its Pitfalls
  • 4. Virtual Provinces, Actually
  • 5. Experiments in Semi-Detachment
  • 6. Visual Interlude II / â#x80;#x9C;This New-Old Industryâ#x80;#x9D;: William Morrisâ#x80;#x99;s Kelmscott Press
  • 7. H.G. Wells, Realist of the Fantastic
  • 8. Overtones and Empty Rooms: Willa Catherâ#x80;#x99;s Layers9. Visual Interlude III / The Great Stone Face: Buster Keaton, Semi-Detached
  • Conclusion: Apparitional Criticism
  • Notes
  • Bibliography

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