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'This chapter uses the fault lines within materialist cultural criticism as a way of mapping the relationship between literature and the everyday. It begins by juxtaposing Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno’s account of the autonomy of the aesthetic (in Dialectic of Enlightenment) with Henri Lefebvre’s critique of nineteenth-century literature’s dismissal of the everyday (in Critique of Everyday Life). It then goes on to look at literature and everyday life as opposed, but mutually constituting terms across a wide range of Australian material, and suggests that forms of creative and critical practice as diverse, and as apparently antagonistic, as Patrick White’s belated modernism and the cultural studies movement of the 1990s can be read as expressions of this basic tension.'
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