TY - BOOK AU - Olson,Liesl TI - Modernism and the ordinary SN - 9780199867639 (ebook) : AV - PN56.M54 U1 - 809.9112 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Modernism (Literature) KW - Realism in literature KW - Literature, Modern KW - 20th century KW - History and criticism KW - 19th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195368123.001.0001 ER -