Modernism and the ordinary
By: Liesl Olson.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780195368123
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Realism in literature; Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. The paradox of the ordinary; title: Everyday life theory; title: The nineteenth century and the everyday; title: Ordinary life and modern war; title: James Joyce and the Realism of the Ordinary. Ibsen and epiphany; title: The lists of Ulysses; title: Virginia Woolf and the "cotton wool of daily life"; title: Poetry versus prose; title: Facts and things; title: Gertrude Stein, William James, and habit in the shadow of war. Habit: "the enormous fly-wheel of society"; title: A "perfectly ordinary couple living an ordinary life"; title: Wallace Stevens' Commonplace. The normal poet; title: An ordinary evening in New Haven; title: Conclusion. Beginnings and endings: Proust's temporality and the everyday.