http://worldcat.org/entity/work/id/142180596

Modernism and the ordinary

"In Modernism and the Ordinary, Liesl Olson overturns conventional accounts of the modernist period as primarily drawn toward the new, the transcendent, and the extraordinary. Olson shows how modernist writers were preoccupied, instead, with the unselfconscious actions of everyday life, even in times of political crisis and war. Experiences like walking to work, eating a sandwich, or mending a dress were often resistant to shock, and these daily activities presented a counter-force to the aesthetic of heightened affect with which the period is often associated"--Abstract.

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