"Literary houses can have a detached connection to their author, but for Blake place was so important that it seems extraordinary that in Britain we don't celebrate these two extraordinary houses".
For instance, the "uncreative writing" promoted by late postmodernist poets lacks any affect at all because it merely bulk-appropriates an existing text not written by the uncreative "author"; the detached critique of language and meaning it offers is performed by its very detachment from affect.
This portrait of her parents is familiar in outline from Lessing's 1994 autobiography, "Under My Skin," but whereas the author adopted a detached, matter-of-fact tone in that volume, she writes here with a visceral immediacy, conjuring the awful, unrelieved hardship of her parents' lives in Rhodesia, and the aching disappointment that shrouded their daily existence.
This is not easy, because the author and actor lived a somewhat detached life: a respected tithe-owning country gentleman in Stratford, perhaps, but a rather rootless artist in London.
This book also provides a close analysis of what Mr. Alter sees as the administration's missteps, focused around the author's conviction that the president's "detached and self-contained nature had hampered his presidency".
Preacher and inspirational author Norman Vincent Peale went further: "When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively.
An author possessing negative capability is objective and emotionally detached, as opposed to one who writes for didactic purposes; a literary work possessing negative capability may have beauties and depths that make conventional considerations of truth and morality irrelevant.
In "King Icahn," a 1993 biography, the author, Mark Stevens, described his subject as a "germophobic, detached, relatively loveless man," and quoted one contemporary saying, "Carl's dream in life is to have the only fire truck in town.
The author is weakest in unlocking the character of this detached man: a dreadful father, disloyal husband and disarming user of friends.
The New Yorker Tweeted a detached, axiom-filled story by A Visit From the Goon Squad author Jennifer Egan in 2012.
The behavior of these systems has hitherto been studied analytically and numerically, but to the authors' knowledge, there is no record of an inner detached FRC being detected experimentally.
