LIT190S-01 Everyday Life
With Instructor Carson Welch
What is everyday life? What should everyday life be like? Or is day-to-day routine something to be escaped? Exploring the concept of everyday life in modern European literature and philosophy, this course asks how writers have taken the emergence of “everydayness” as a sign of both democratic progress and widespread dissatisfaction. The course surveys some of the ways in which the concept of everyday life has proven difficult to capture in traditional philosophical discourse and has motivated various kinds of literary experimentation. Readings span the themes of existentialism, alienation, psychoanalysis, feminism, and literary modernism.