General Information

Author/Creator

Sheringham, Michael, 1948-2016

Language

English.

Published

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Physical Description

x, 437 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Heck, Maryline, 1978- (translator)

Hostiou, Jeanne-Marie, 1979- (translator)

Subjects

Subject

French literature > 20th century > History and criticism.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Michael Sheringham.

Content

Introduction -- 1. The Indeterminacy of the Everyday. The Hardest Thing to Uncover: Blanchot with Lefebvre --The Ambiguity of the Everyday -- Types of Ambiguity: Lukács, 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 50 -- 'Plutot 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. Boiffards Big Toes: the Challenge of Documents -- The Beneficence of Desire -- Michel Leiris and the Sacred in Everyday Life -- André Breton and the 'Magique-circonstanciel' -- 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 Avantpropos -- 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 149-- 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 181-- 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 demploi -- 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.

ISBN

0199273952

9780199273959

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	840.9/0091 SHE		OSA Repository	Donation of Márk László-Herbert.

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