Midcentury suspension : literature and feeling in the wake of World War II /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Seiler, Claire (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]
Colección:Modernist latitudes.
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
English literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Literature and society > United States > History > 20th century.
Literature and society > Great Britain > History > 20th century.
Nineteen fifties.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Littérature et société > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Littérature et société > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Années cinquante (Vingtième siècle)
HISTORY / Modern / General.
American literature
English literature
Literature and society
Nineteen fifties
Great Britain
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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