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:

1 online resource (215 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Traditionally literary modernism has been seen as a movement marked by transcendent epiphanies, episodes of estrangement, and a privileging of the extraordinary. Yet modernist writings often take great pains to describe the material, seemingly insignificant details of daily life. Modernism and the Ordinary upends our perceived notions of the period's literature as it recognizes just how pivotal commonplace activities are to modernist aesthetics. Through pointed readings of prose and poetry from both the U. S. and abroad, Liesl Olson highlights the variety of ways modernist writers represente

Contents:

Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; The Paradox of the Ordinary; Everyday Life Theory; The Nineteenth Century and the Everyday; Ordinary Life and Modern War; ONE: Joyce and the Realism of the Ordinary; Ibsen and Epiphany; The Lists of Ulysses; TWO: Virginia Woolf and the "Cotton Wool of Daily Life"; Poetry versus Prose; Mrs. Dalloway; Facts and Things; THREE: 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"; FOUR: Wallace Stevens's Commonplace

The Normal Poet"An Ordinary Evening in New Haven"; Conclusion: Beginnings and Endings: Proust's Temporality and the Everyday; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-934978-9

9786612053832

0-19-970972-6

1-282-05383-3

OCLC:

707917843