Modernism, Daily Time and Everyday Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernism, Daily Time and Everyday Life write by Bryony Randall. This book was released on 2007-12-13. Modernism, Daily Time and Everyday Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bryony Randall explores the twin concepts of daily time and of everyday life through the writing of several major modernist authors. The book begins with a contextualising chapter on the psychologists William James and Henri Bergson. It goes on to devote chapters to Dorothy Richardson, Gertrude Stein, H. D. and Virginia Woolf. These experimental writers, she argues, reveal everyday life and daily time as rich and strange, not simply a banal backdrop to more important events. Moreover, Randall argues that paying attention to the everyday and daily time can be politically empowering and subversive. The specific social and cultural context of the early twentieth century is one in which the concept of daily time is particularly strongly challenged. By examining Modernism's engagement with or manifestation of this notion of daily time, she reveals a totally new perspective on their concerns and complexities.
Modernism, Daily Time and Everyday Life
Modernism, Daily Time and Everyday Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernism, Daily Time and Everyday Life write by . This book was released on 2011. Modernism, Daily Time and Everyday Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Modernism and the Ordinary
Modernism and the Ordinary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Modernism and the Ordinary write by Liesl Olson. This book was released on 2014-04-03. Modernism and the Ordinary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Modernism and the Ordinary 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. 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. With attentive and sensitive readings, Modernism and the Ordinary examines works by Joyce, Woolf, Stein, Stevens, Proust, Beckett, and Auden alongside the ideas of philosophers such as Henri Bergson and William James. In doing so, the book reveals the non-transformative power of the ordinary as one of modernism's most compelling attributes.
Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 1
Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 1 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 1 write by Henri Lefebvre. This book was released on 2008-02-17. Critique of Everyday Life, Vol. 1 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Henri Lefebvre’s magnum opus: a monumental exploration of contemporary society. Henri Lefebvre’s three-volume Critique of Everyday Life is perhaps the richest, most prescient work by one of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers. Written at the birth of post-war consumerism, the Critique was a philosophical inspiration for the 1968 student revolution in France and is considered to be the founding text of all that we know as cultural studies, as well as a major influence on the fields of contemporary philosophy, geography, sociology, architecture, political theory and urbanism. A work of enormous range and subtlety, Lefebvre takes as his starting-point and guide the “trivial” details of quotidian experience: an experience colonized by the commodity, shadowed by inauthenticity, yet one which remains the only source of resistance and change. This is an enduringly radical text, untimely today only in its intransigence and optimism.
Against the Event
Against the Event - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Against the Event write by Michael Sayeau. This book was released on 2013-08-29. Against the Event available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Against the Event: The Everyday and the Evolution of Modernist Narrative investigates how a modernity famed for temporal acceleration - from Benjamin's 'shock' and 'distraction' to the postmodern loss of historical consciousness diagnosed by Jameson - generated fictions defined, strangely enough, not just by the 'new' but just as forcefully by everyday depletions of stasis and repetition, a flood of sameness in modern life. With close attention to the novels of Flaubert, Wells, Conrad, and Joyce, Against the Event relates this aspect of modernity to modernist and proto-modernist problems of narrative form, in particular the banalizing effects of genre, the threatening necessity of closure, and the obsolescence of the coherent narrator. In doing so, Against the Event is also an intervention into one of the pressing philosophical and theoretical issues of our time, that of the nature of the 'event.'
