Novels in the everyday : an aesthetic investigation

• Authors: Kalle Puolakka
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Everyday aestheticians have had relatively little to say about literature. Inspired by Peter Kivy’s philosophy of literature as laid out in his books The Performance of Reading and Once-Told Tales, I examine reading literature as a part of everyday life. I argue that not only do Kivy’s views help explain the value that avid readers place on their daily silent engagement with a book, but that his philosophy of literature also shows how literary works can have an aesthetic presence in our everyday lives even during periods in-between reading a book. In light of the paper, literary reading turns out to be an artistic routine that fills avid readers’ everyday lives in a very literal sense.

Keywords

EN

literature; everyday aesthetics; art; aesthetic experience; aesthetics of everyday life

Discipline

• PHILOSOPHY: PHILOSOPHY

• Publisher: Institute of Art History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics
• Year: 2019
• Volume: 56_(New_Series_12)
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 206-222
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kalle Puolakka

• Estetika, redakce, Katedra estetiky, Filozofická fakulta UK, Celená 20, 116 42 Praha 1, Czech Republic