书名：Semi-Detached: The Aesthetics of Virtual Experience since Dickens / 半独立：自狄更斯以来的虚拟体验美学
定价：316.0
ISBN：9780691159461
作者：John Plotz
版次：1
出版时间：2017-11

内容提要：
书名：Semi-detached: The Aesthetics of Virtual Experience since Dickens / 半分离：自狄更斯以来的虚拟体验美学
作者：John Plotz (约翰·普洛茨)
出版社：Princeton University Press，2018年
装帧：精装，344页
语种：英文
尺寸：约 16.3*24.3 cm

ISBN：978-0-6911-5946-1

简介
这本书探讨了当我们“半沉浸”于一件艺术作品时，未被完全吸引的另一半发生了什么。作者约翰·普洛茨将此概念称为“半分离”（semi-detachment），意指一种同时存在于社会与物理环境之内与之外的、既互动又疏离的状态。本书主要聚焦于维多利亚时代至现代主义早期的作家和艺术家，他们认识到自己的作品能够触动、放大或塑造这种悬而未决的二元体验。书中分析了从狄更斯、乔治·艾略特到亨利·詹姆斯等现实主义作家如何展现意识能同时存在于多个地方；也研究了前拉斐尔派绘画、威廉·莫里斯的印刷艺术，以及威拉·凯瑟将审美梦想与现实相连的现代主义，最后还探讨了巴斯特·基顿在早期电影中对此状态的独特表现。在如今高度依赖数字技术、注意力易受分散的时代，这本书通过历史与批判的视角，回顾了读者和观众在审美体验中长期以来所理解和接纳的“半分离”状态，提供了一种对媒介历史的独特审视。

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 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. It 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.