Semi-Detached: The Aesthetics of Virtual Experience since Dickens by John Plotz (review)

JOHN PLOTZ'S Semi-Detached describes the ways fiction, painting, and film portray the "dual experience" (2) of readers, partially absorbed in the virtual world of the text and partially distracted by the contours of the ambient material world. [...]Willa Cather's fiction aims to...

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Published in:Victorian review 2017-10, Vol.43 (2), p.307-309
Main Author: Farina, Jonathan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
19th century
Aesthetics
Fiction
Genre
Graduate studies
Modernity
Novels
Physiology
Reading
Science fiction & fantasy
Tone
Victorian period
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Summary:JOHN PLOTZ'S Semi-Detached describes the ways fiction, painting, and film portray the "dual experience" (2) of readers, partially absorbed in the virtual world of the text and partially distracted by the contours of the ambient material world. [...]Willa Cather's fiction aims to realize not so much a fictive world and tone but a "sensation of absence" and an "overtone" (211). Jonathan Farina JONATHAN FARINA is an associate professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of English at Seton Hall University, where he is also chair of the faculty senate.
ISSN:0848-1512
1923-3280
1923-3280
DOI:10.1353/vcr.2017.0037