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Making the New Ordinary
- Journal of Modern Literature
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 35, Number 2, Winter 2012
- pp. 126-130
- 10.2979/jmodelite.35.2.126
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Liesl Olson’s Modernism and the Ordinary calls for an about-face in critical readings of modernism that emphasize heightened inner moments as the movement’s defining achievement. Olson suggests that certain modernist writers were deeply committed to representing just the opposite: the ordinary — the essential quality of everyday life.