The ecstatic quotidian : phenomenological sightings in modern art and literature / Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gosetti-Ferencei, Jennifer Anna.

Series:

Literature and philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

268 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2007]

Summary:

Fascination with quotidian experience in modern art, literature, and philosophy promotes ecstatic forms of reflection on the very structure of the everyday world. Gosetti-Ferencei examines the ways in which modern art and literature enable a study of how we experience quotidian life. She shows that modernism, while exhibiting many strands of development, can be understood by investigating how its attentions to perception and expectation, to the common quality of things, or to childhood play gives way to experiences of ecstasisthe stepping outside of the ordinary familiarity of the world. While phenomenology grounds this study (through Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Bachelard), what makes this book more than a treatise on phenomenological aesthetics is the way in which modernity itself is examined in its relation to the quotidian.

Contents:

1 The Quotidian and Literary-Phenomenological Departures from Everydayness 13

2 Sources of Ecstasis in Childhood Experience 41

3 Literary Phenomenology from the Natural Attitude to Recognition 87

4 The Mysterious and Poetry of the World's Inner Horizons 123

5 The Painterly and the Poetic Image Between Rilke and Cezanne 151

6 The Silent Ecstasis of Vision 183

7 Ecstatic Mimesis in Trompe l'CEil 219.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [249]-258) and index.

ISBN:

9780271032276

0271032278

OCLC:

148725570