Modernism and the ordinary [electronic resource] / Liesl Olson. Olson, Liesl. Modernism (Literature) Realism in literature. Literature, Modern 20th century History and criticism. Literature, Modern 19th century History and criticism. PN56.M54 809.9112 22 Includes bibliographical references and index. Description based on print version record. 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. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009. 2009. 2009 Text 1 online resource (xiii, 200 p.) http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195368123.001.0001 eng