Modernism, Daily Time and Everyday LifeCambridge University Press, 2007 M12 13 - 221 pages 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 highly original perspective on their concerns and complexities. |
Contents
Section 1 | 35 |
Section 2 | 41 |
Section 3 | 49 |
Section 4 | 51 |
Section 5 | 55 |
Section 6 | 59 |
Section 7 | 71 |
Section 8 | 76 |
Section 15 | 112 |
Section 16 | 113 |
Section 17 | 116 |
Section 18 | 121 |
Section 19 | 124 |
Section 20 | 129 |
Section 21 | 141 |
Section 22 | 146 |
Section 9 | 92 |
Section 10 | 96 |
Section 11 | 98 |
Section 12 | 99 |
Section 13 | 102 |
Section 14 | 103 |
Section 23 | 155 |
Section 24 | 157 |
Section 25 | 159 |
Section 26 | 165 |
Section 27 | 181 |
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activity already appears argue aspect associated attempts attention become beginning Bergson called chapter clearly comes complex concept consciousness constitute continuous critics crucial daily death defined definition describes discussion distinction distraction draws duration emphasis event everyday example existence experience explore expressed fact feeling find first Further future going human implied important indicates individual insistence involves James Jeff kind language leisure less living meaning Melanctha memory Midget Miriam moment moving narrative narrator never novel object once one’s particular passage past perhaps period phrase Pilgrimage position practical precisely present produce puts Quakers question reader reading recreation reference reflection regard relationship remembering repeated repetition Richardson scene seems seen sense single specifically Stein’s structure suggests Sunday takes temporality Tender Buttons thing thinking thought tion understanding Waves whole women Woolf’s writing