TY  - BOOK
AU  - Olson,Liesl
TI  - Modernism and the ordinary
SN  - 9780195368123 (hc : alk. paper)
AV  - PN56.M54 O47 2009
U1  - 809.9112 O L M 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Oxford, New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Modernism (Literature)
KW  - Realism in literature
KW  - Literature, Modern
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - 19th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-189) and index; 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
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