Semi-Detached - The Aesthetics of Virtual Experience Since Dickens

About the author

John Plotz is professor of Victorian literature at Brandeis University. His books include The Crowd: British Literature and Public Politics, Portable Property: Victorian Culture on the Move (Princeton), and a young-adult novel, Time and the Tapestry: A William Morris Adventure. Plotz is the editor of the B-Sides series at Public Books.

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,

Product details

• Authors: John Plotz, Plotz John
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.02.2024
• EAN: 9780691259277
• ISBN: 978-0-691-25927-7
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; ART / Subjects & Themes / General, The arts: general issues, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, The arts: general topics