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024 7 _a10.7312/seil19468
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aSeiler, Claire
_eautore
245 1 0 _aMidcentury Suspension :
_bLiterature and Feeling in the Wake of World War II /
_cClaire Seiler.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bColumbia University Press,
_c[2020]
264 4 _c©2019
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aModernist Latitudes
505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction. The Midcentury Problem --
_tChapter One. The Timely Suspensions of Elizabeth Bishop’s A Cold Spring --
_tChapter Two. W. H. Auden, Ralph Ellison, and the Midcentury Anxiety Consensus --
_tChapter Three. Elizabeth Bowen and Samuel Beckett Waiting in the Middle --
_tChapter Four. The Sonic Suspensions of Frank O’Hara --
_tAfterword --
_tNotes --
_tSelect Bibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aHow did literary artists confront the middle of a century already defined by two global wars and newly faced with a nuclear future? Midcentury Suspension argues that a sense of suspension—a feeling of being between beginnings and endings, recent horrors and opaque horizons—shaped transatlantic literary forms and cultural expression in this singular moment.Rooted in extensive archival research in literary, print, and public cultures of the Anglophone North Atlantic, Claire Seiler’s account of midcentury suspension ranges across key works of the late 1940s and early 1950s by authors such as W. H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Bowen, Ralph Ellison, and Frank O’Hara. Seiler reveals how these writers cultivated modes of suspension that spoke to the felt texture of life at midcentury. Running counter to the tendency to frame midcentury literature in the terms of modernism or of our contemporary, Midcentury Suspension reorients twentieth-century literary study around the epoch’s fraught middle.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aAmerican literature
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aEnglish literature
_y20th century
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aLiterature and society
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aLiterature and society
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aNineteen fifties.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century .
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.7312/seil19468
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231550949
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