Axel's castle : a study of the imaginative literature of 1870-1930 / Edmund Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, Edmund, 1895-1972.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern--20th century--History and criticism.

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--19th century--History and criticism.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

254 pages ; 21 cm

Edition:

First Farrar, Straus, and Giroux paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2004.

Summary:

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 Valé ry, 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."

Contents:

Symbolism

W.B. Yeats

Paul Valery

T.S. Eliot

Marcel Proust

James Joyce

Gertrude Stein

Axel and Rimbaud.

Notes:

Originally published: New York ; London : C. Scribner's Sons, 1931.

Includes index.

Index.

ISBN:

0374529272

9780374529277

OCLC:

54826148

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