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Axel's Castle: A Study in the Imaginative Literature of 1870-1930 (original 1931; edition 1984)

by Edmund Wilson

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Published in 1931,Axel's Castle was Edmund Wilson's first book of literary criticism--a landmark book that explores the evolution of the French Symbolist movement and considers its influence on six major twentieth-century writers: William Butler Yeats, Paul Valéry, T. S. Eliot, Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Gertrude Stein. As Alfred Kazin later wrote, "Wilson was an original, an extraordinary literary artist . . . He could turn any literary subject back into the personal drama it had been for the writer."… (more)

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809.915Literature › modified standard subdivisions › History, description and criticism of more than two literatures › By topic › Myth And Symbolism

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PN771.W55Language and Literature › Literature (General) › Literature (General) › Literary history › By period › Modern

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