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Davis examines late modernism's turn toward everyday life, locating in the heightened scrutiny of details, textures, and experiences an intimate attempt to conceptualize geopolitical disorder. __The Extinct Scene__ reads a range of mid-century texts, films, and phenomena that reflect the decline of the British Empire and shifts in the global political order. Davis recasts late modernism as an art of scale: by detailing the particulars of everyday life, the movement could better project the large-scale undoing of history. Examines late modernism’s decisive turn toward everyday life, locating in the heightened scrutiny of details, textures, and experiences an intimate attempt to conceptualize geopolitical disorder.

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Author

Thomas S. Davis

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231169424

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, History, Literary Fiction