Modernism and the ordinary / Liesl Olson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olson, Liesl.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Modernism (Literature).

Realism in literature.

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 200 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-189) and index.

ISBN:

9780195368123

0195368126

OCLC:

244354520