Olson, Liesl. creator text bibliography enk Oxford New York Oxford University Press 2009 monographic eng

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xiii, 200 p. ; 25 cm. 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. Liesl Olson. Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-189) and index. Modernism (Literature) Realism in literature Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism Literature, Modern 19th century History and criticism PN56.M54 O47 2009 809.9112 O L M 9780195368123 (hc : alk. paper) 0195368126 2008035628 http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0826/2008035628.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0916/2008035628-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0916/2008035628-d.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0826/2008035628.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0916/2008035628-b.html http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0916/2008035628-d.html DLC 111217 20150408114001.0 15409436