Wyndham Lewis: A Critical Guide

ISBN-13: 9780748685684 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 288 str.

Andrzej G?siorek;Nathan Waddell

Opis

This critical guide introduces the reader to the work of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), a major modernist and thought-provoking satirist who was at the centre of the avant-garde in early 20th-century London and a key figure in the development of Vorticism.
These 15 newly commissioned essays explain the complex role Lewis's work played in the formation, development, and criticism of modernism. There are chapters on Lewis and Vorticism and Avant-Gardism, War, Cultural Criticism, Satire, Race and Gender, Politics, Technology and Mass Media, and Modernism as well as individual chapters on key texts, including Tarr, The Apes of God, The Revenge for Love, The Human Age, and Self-Condemned. With an Introduction, an opening chapter on Lewis's pre-war writing and a closing chapter on his reputation and legacy, this is the most thorough survey of Lewis's work to date.

Spis treści

List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction, Andrzej G?siorek and Nathan Waddell; 1. Pre-War Writing, Louise Kane; 2. Vorticism and Avant-Gardism, Julian Hanna; 3. ‘Harsh laughter’: Reading Tarr, Faith Binckes; 4. Lewis and War, Ann-Marie Einhaus; 5. Lewis and Cultural Criticism, Alan Munton; 6. Lewis, Satire, and Literature, Jamie Wood; 7. The Apes of God, David Bradshaw; 8. Political Incorrectness Gone Sane: Lewis, Race, and Gender, Ivan Phillips; 9. Lewis and Politics, Nathan Waddell; 10. The Revenge for Love, Ian Patterson; 11. Lewis and Technology, Andrzej G?siorek; 12. Lewis and Modernism, Michael Nath; 13. The Human Age, Scott W. Klein; 14. Self Condemned: Casualties of the Vortex, Miranda Hickman; 15. Legacy, Paul Edwards; Index