Seiler, Claire
Midcentury Suspension
- ISBN 13:
- 9780231194693
- author:
- Seiler, Claire
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2020
- Pages:
- 304
- Dimensions:
- 229mm / 153mm
- Genre:
- Literature Textbook
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Claire Seiler's Midcentury Suspension explores how literary artists responded to the challenges of the mid-20th century. During this period, two global wars and the threat of nuclear future weighed heavily on the world. In her study, Seiler 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. Seiler's book examines key works from 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. Through extensive archival research in literary, print, and public cultures of the Anglophone North Atlantic, Seiler reveals how these writers cultivated modes of suspension that spoke to the felt texture of life at midcentury. By reorienting twentieth-century literary study around the epoch's fraught middle, Midcentury Suspension offers a fresh perspective on this pivotal moment in literary history.
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