Modernism and the ordinary/
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Oxford New York:
Oxford University Press,
2009
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. The paradox of the ordinary
- Everyday life theory
- The nineteenth century and the everyday
- Ordinary life and modern war
- James Joyce and the realism of the ordinary. Ibsen and epiphany
- The lists of Ulysses
- Virginia Woolf and the "cotton wool of daily life".
- Poetry versus prose
- Mrs. Dalloway
- Facts and things
- Gertrude Stein, William James, and habit in the shadow of war. Habit : "the enormous fly-wheel of society"
- "Suspended in time"
- A "perfectly ordinary couple living an ordinary life"
- Wallace Stevensʹs commonplace. The normal poet
- "An ordinary evening in New Haven"
- Conclusion. Beginnings and endings : Proustʹs temporality and the everyday