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.
Frost, Kate: - Kate Frost is an author of contemporary women's fiction and an award-winning time travel adventure series for children. Kate grew up in the 80s reading adventure stories like Roald Dahl's The BFG, J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, C.S. Lewis' The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and Arthur Ransome's Swallows and Amazons. She started writing her own stories when she spent months off school following open-heart surgery at the age of seven. Kate has a MA in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University and has also taught lifewriting to Creative Writing undergraduates there. She's keen on doing literary events and has been on author panels at the Bristol Festival of Literature, and chaired readings and discussed writing for children at the Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival and Oakwood Literature Festival in Derby. At the beginning of 2019 she was appointed the Director of Children's and Teen's Events at the Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival. She's also Co-founder of Storytale Festival, a new city-wide children's book festival in Bristol. She enjoys inspiring children to read, write and be creative, and wants to continue taking creative writing workshops based on Time Shifters, her time travel adventure books, into schools. Over the years Kate's had many jobs in a cinema, a bookshop, a factory and at NHS Direct. She's worked as a freelance writer, ground staff at Edgebaston Tennis Tournament and as a Supporting Artist in the films Vanity Fair, King Arthur and The Duchess. By far her favourite job is being an author and telling stories. Kate lives in Bristol with her husband, son and their Cavalier King Charles spaniel.
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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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