Axel's Castle
by:
Edmund Wilson (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780684106724 (0684106728)
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
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...