| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations (some color). |
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text file |
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Modernist latitudes
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Modernist latitudes.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: The Midcentury Problem -- The Timely Suspensions of Elizabeth Bishop's A Cold Spring -- W. H. Auden, Ralph Ellison, and the Midcentury Anxiety Consensus -- Elizabeth Bowen and Samuel Beckett Waiting in the Middle -- The Sonic Suspensions of Frank O'Hara -- Afterword. |
| Summary |
"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 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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American literature. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English literature. |
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Literature and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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United States. |
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Literature and society. |
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Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century.
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History. |
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Nineteen fifties.
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Nineteen fifties. |
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Great Britain. |
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HISTORY / Modern / General. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Seiler, Claire. Midcentury suspension New York : Columbia University Press, 2020. 9780231194686 (DLC) 2019054334 |
| ISBN |
9780231550949 electronic book |
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0231550944 electronic book |
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9780231194686 hardcover |
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9780231194693 paperback |
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