Modernism and the ordinary

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 w...

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1. Verfasser: Olson, Liesl
Format: E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2009.
Schlagworte:
Modernism (Literature)
Realism in literature.
Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature, Modern > 19th century > History and criticism.
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Zusammenfassung: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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Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiii, 200 p.)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780199867639 (ebook) :

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