Semi-Detached - The Aesthetics of Virtual Experience Since Dickens

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: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2017
• EAN: 9780691159461
• ISBN: 978-0-691-15946-1
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; 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