Olson, Liesl.
Modernism and the ordinary [electronic resource] / Liesl Olson. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. - 1 online resource (xiii, 200 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780199867639 (ebook) : No price
Modernism (Literature)
Realism in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--19th century
PN56.M54
809.9112
Modernism and the ordinary [electronic resource] / Liesl Olson. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. - 1 online resource (xiii, 200 p.)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780199867639 (ebook) : No price
Modernism (Literature)
Realism in literature.
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--20th century
Literature, Modern--History and criticism.--19th century
PN56.M54
809.9112