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Everyday life : theories and practices from surrealism to the present /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Sheringham, Michael
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Colección:OUP E-Books.
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  • 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.