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"In Modernism and the Ordinary, Liesl Olson overturns conventional accounts of the modernist period as primarily drawn toward the new, the transcendent, and the extraordinary. Olson shows how modernist writers were preoccupied, instead, with the unselfconscious actions of everyday life, even in...

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Main Author: Olson, Liesl
Corporate Author: Oxford University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Modernism (Literature)
Realism in literature.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism.
Modernisme (Littérature)
Réalisme dans la littérature.
Littérature > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Literary.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Literature, Modern
Realism in literature
1800-1999
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. The paradox of the ordinary
  • Everyday life theory
  • The nineteenth century and the everyday
  • Ordinary life and modern war
  • James Joyce and the realism of the ordinary. Ibsen and epiphany
  • The lists of Ulysses
  • Virginia Woolf and the "cotton wool of daily life".
  • Poetry versus prose
  • Mrs. Dalloway
  • Facts and things
  • Gertrude Stein, William James, and habit in the shadow of war. Habit : "the enormous fly-wheel of society"
  • "Suspended in time"
  • A "perfectly ordinary couple living an ordinary life"
  • Wallace Stevens's commonplace. The normal poet
  • "An ordinary evening in New Haven"
  • Conclusion. Beginnings and endings : Proust's temporality and the everyday.