Everyday Life - Theories And Practices from Surrealism to the Present

Zusatztext ...embraces cultural as well as literary studies and consistently elucidates the complex formal and theoretical mutations that the concept of everyday life has undergone during the previous century. Informationen zum Autor Michael Sheringham is Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature at the University of Oxford. Klappentext The notion of the everyday is at the heart of modern French cultural and Anglo-American cultural studies. Since the 1960s numerous writers, artists, philosophers, and social theorists have tried to home in on the patterns and rhythms of our daily activities. This book provides a detailed map of this territory, linking the pioneering work of such key figures as Georges Perec and Michel de Certeau, to currents in Surrealism, ethnography, fiction, film, and photography. Zusammenfassung Comprises searching analyses of works in a variety of genres, including fiction, the essay, poetry, theatre, film, photography, and the visual arts. By demonstrating the contribution of Perec and others, and exploring the Surrealist inheritance, this book proposes a genealogy for the remarkable upsurge of interest in the everyday since the 1980s. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1: The Indeterminacy of the Everyday 2: Surrealism and the Everyday 3: Dissident Surrealism: The Quotidian Sacred and Profane 4: Henri Lefebvre: Alienation and Appropriation in Everyday Life 5: All that Falls: Barthes and the Everyday 6: Michel de Certeau: Reclaiming the Everyday 7: Georges Perec: Uncovering the Infra-ordinary 8: After Perec: Dissemination and Diversification 9: Configuring the Everyday

Product details

• Authors: Michael Sheringham, Sheringham Michael
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.05.2006
• EAN: 9780199273959
• ISBN: 978-0-19-927395-9
• No. of pages: 437
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 241 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies; Cultural Studies, France, Theory of art, ART / Criticism & Theory, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, c 1960 to c 1970, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, c 1960 to c 1969, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form