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