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03486aam a2200529 i 4500 001 6518414EDCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 200220s2020 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019054334 020 $a 0231194692 020 $a 9780231194693 020 $a 0231194684 020 $a 9780231194686 035 $a (OCoLC)1128885103 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ERASA $d YDX $d L2U $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-uk--- $a e-uk--- 050 00 $a PS225 $b .S45 2020 082 00 $a 810.9/005 $2 23 100 1 $a Seiler, Claire, $e author. 245 10 $a Midcentury suspension : $b literature and feeling in the wake of World War II / $c Claire Seiler. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2020] 300 $a x, 290 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Modernist latitudes 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a 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. 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a English literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Literature and society $z Great Britain $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Nineteen fifties. 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a English literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00911989 650 7 $a Literature and society. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01000096 650 7 $a Nineteen fifties. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01037791 651 7 $a Great Britain. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204623 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Seiler, Claire, $t Midcentury suspension $d New York : Columbia University Press, 2020. $z 9780231550949 $w (DLC) 2019054335 830 0 $a Modernist latitudes. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117032216.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6518414EDCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search