The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomenological Sightings in Modern Art and Literature

by Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei and Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271032286
• ISBN13: 9780271032283
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"