The Extinct Scene: Late Modernism and Everyday Life (Modernist Latitudes)

Thomas S. Davis 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. The Extinct Scene reads a range of mid-century texts, films, and phenomena that reflect the decline of the British Empire.

• | Author: Thomas Davis
• | Publisher: Columbia University Press
• | Publication Date: December 03, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 328 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0231169434
• | ISBN-13: 9780231169431