SOURCE: "What Was Modernism?" in Varieties of Literary Experience: Eighteen Essays in World Literature, edited by Stanley Burnshaw, New York University Press, 1962, pp. 307-29.
In the following essay, Levin reflects on the distinguishing traits and cultural significance of the Modernist era in literature.
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