Axel's Castle: A Study of the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930
by:
Edmund Wilson (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780679602330 (067960233X)
Publish date: October 15th 1996
Publisher: Modern Library
Pages no: 362
Edition language: English
(5-stars was too much; corrected)Wilson’s essay on the nature and origins of Modernism in literature is lucid, clear, and direct, and is worth familiarizing oneself with. After an initial, very brief discussion of Romanticism – seen as a revolt against the mechanistic rationalism of the 17th and 18...
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