Modernism and the ordinary [electronic resource] /
by Olson, Liesl.
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BookPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 200 p.).ISBN: 9780199867639 (ebook) :.Subject(s): Modernism (Literature) | Realism in literature | Literature, Modern -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Literature, Modern -- 19th century -- History and criticismOnline resources: Oxford scholarship online Summary: This study overturns conventional accounts of the modernist period as primarily drawn toward the new, the transcendent, and the extraordinary. Liesl Olson shows how modernist writers were preoccupied, instead, with the unselfconscious actions of everyday life, even in times of political crisis and war.
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This study overturns conventional accounts of the modernist period as primarily drawn toward the new, the transcendent, and the extraordinary. Liesl Olson shows how modernist writers were preoccupied, instead, with the unselfconscious actions of everyday life, even in times of political crisis and war.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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