Midcentury Suspension : : Literature and Feeling in the Wake of World War II / / Claire Seiler.
How 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 liter...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2020] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Modernist Latitudes
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Midcentury Problem
- Chapter One. The Timely Suspensions of Elizabeth Bishop’s A Cold Spring
- Chapter Two. W. H. Auden, Ralph Ellison, and the Midcentury Anxiety Consensus
- Chapter Three. Elizabeth Bowen and Samuel Beckett Waiting in the Middle
- Chapter Four. The Sonic Suspensions of Frank O’Hara
- Afterword
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index