Modernism and the Ordinary overturns conventional accounts of the modernist period as primarily drawn toward the new, the transcendent, and the extraordinary. L

In this 2005 book, Jaffe examines the interactions of modernist literary fame and celebrity culture in the early twentieth century.

This radically original book argues for the power of ordinary language philosophy—a tradition inaugurated by Ludwig Wittgenstein and J. L. Austin, and extende

A fascinating history of Chicago’s innovative and invaluable contributions to American literature and art from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth centur

"The first major interdisciplinary study of the ordinary in modernist women's literature and photography that demonstrates how their alternative vision of the e