Everyday life : theories and practices from surrealism to the present / Michael Sheringham.
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TextPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: x, 437 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780199566983
- 0199566984
- 306.01 SHE
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In the last twenty years the concept of the quotidien , or the everyday, has been prominent in contemporary French culture and in British and American cultural studies. This book provides the first comprehensive analytical survey of the whole field of approaches to the everyday. It offers, firstly, a historical perspective, demonstrating the importance of mainstream and dissident Surrealism; the indispensable contribution, over a 20-year period (1960-80), of four major figures: Henri Lefebvre, Roland Barthes, Michel de Certeau, and Georges Perec; and the recent proliferation of works that investigate everyday experience. Secondly, it establishes the framework of philosophical ideas on which discourses on the everyday depend, but which they characteristically subvert. Thirdly, it comprises searching analyses of works in a variety of genres, including fiction, the essay, poetry, theatre, film, photography, and the visual arts, consistently stressing how explorations of the everyday tend to question and combine genres in richly creative ways. By demonstrating the enduring contribution of Perec and others, and exploring the Surrealist inheritance, the book proposes a genealogy for the remarkable upsurge of interest in the everyday since the 1980s. A second main objective is to raise questions about the dimension of experience addressed by artists and thinkers when they invoke the quotidien or related concepts. Does the 'everyday' refer to an objective content defined by particular activities, or is it best thought of in terms of rhythm, repetition, festivity, ordinariness, the generic, the obvious, the given? Are there events or acts that are uniquely 'everyday', or is the quotidien a way of thinking about events and acts in the 'here and now' as opposed to the longer term? What techniques or genres are best suited to conveying the nature of everyday life? The book explores these questions in a comparative spirit, drawing new parallels between the work of numerous writers and artists, including André Breton, Raymond Queneau, Walter Benjamin, Michel Leiris, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Stanley Cavell, Annie Ernaux, Jacques Réda, and Sophie Calle.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-414) and index.
5050 1. The indeterminacy of the everyday : \'The hardest thing to uncover\': Blanchot with Lefebvre ; The ambiguity of the everyday ; Types of ambiguity: Lukás, Heidegger, and Heller ; Genre and the everyday: resisting the novel ; The essay and the everyday: Perec with Adorno -- 2. Surrealism and the everyday : From Baudelaire to Dada ; \'Plutôt la vie\': Surrealist vitalism ; In the city streets: experience and experiment ; Everydayness and self-evidence ; The photograph as trigger and as trace -- 3. Dissident Surrealism: the quotidian sacred and profane : Boiffard\'s Big toes: the challenge of Documents ; The beneficence of desire ; Michel Leiris and the sacred in everyday life ; André Breton and the \'Magique-circonstancielle\' ; Queneau and the quotidien ; Coda: Walter Benjamin and the everyday legacies of Surrealism -- 4. Henri Lefebvre: alienation and appropriation in everyday life : The 1947 Critique de la vie quotidienne ; The 1958 \'Avant-propos\' ; The 1961 Critique: fondements pour une sociologie de la quotidienneté ; The freedom of the city: Lefebvre, Debord, and the Situationists -- 5. All that falls: Barthes and the everyday : Beyond Mythologies ; Envisioning fashion: Barthes, Benjamin, Baudrillard, and others ; Changing scale, resisting function ; Towards a new \'art de vivre\' ; \'Comment vivre ensemble\' ; \'Chronique\' and everyday writing -- 6. Michel de Certeau: reclaiming the everyday : Consumption as production ; The power of the ruse ; Practical memory ; The logic of everyday practices: walking, talking reading ; Narrativity, historicity, subjectivity: Certeau, Wittgenstein, and Cavell ; The conservatoire of ritual: Certeau and Maffesoli ; L\'invention du quotidien II: Habiter, Cuisiner -- 7. Georges Perec: uncovering the infra-ordinary : Fables of disconnection: Les choses and Un homme qui dort ; The matrix of Lieux ; Three days in the place Saint-Sulpice ; Dispersal: places and memories ; The everyday in La vie mode d\'emploi -- 8. After Perec: dissemination and diversification : Proximate ethnographies ; Urban trajectories: Augé, Maspero, Ernaux, Réda ; The proliferation of the everyday: mutation, enunciation, and genre -- 9. Configuring the everyday : The space of the day ; Street names ; Projects of attention.