Midcentury Suspension: Literature and Feeling in the Wake of World War II (Modernist Latitudes) by Claire Seiler
English | October 2nd, 2020 | ISBN: 0231194692, 0231194684 | 304 pages | EPUB | 8.21 MB
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.