Time Shifters by Kate Frost
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, 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.
The 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 found remarkable ways to portray semi-detachment on screen. In a time of cyberdependency and virtual worlds, when it seems that attention to everyday reality is stretching thin, Semi-Detached takes a historical and critical look at the halfway-thereness that audiences have long comprehended and embraced in their aesthetic encounters.Kate Frost is a writer and author who holds an MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University, where she also teaches a lifewriting course to Creative Writing students. Kate has worked in a bookshop, a cinema, as ground crew at the Edgebaston Tennis Tournament, and as a Supporting Artist in the films Vanity Fair, King Arthur, and The Duchess, in addition to authoring articles and short stories for magazines such as New Welsh Review, The London Magazine, and QWF. Kate has written two women's fiction novels, Under the Apple Blossom and The Butterfly Storm, and her debut children's book, Time Shifters: Into the Past, is the first of a trilogy. She and her family live in Bristol, with her husband, small son, and dog.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780995478053 |
| ISBN 10 | 0995478058 |
| Title | Time Shifters |
| Author | Kate Frost |
| Series | Time Shifters |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Lemon Tree Press |
| Year published | 2018-10-18 |
| Number of pages | 228 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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