Wyndham Lewis a Critical Guide /

Wyndham Lewis a Critical Guide / edited by Andrzey GÞasiorek and Nathan Waddell. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2015. - 1 online resource (xi, 239 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Wyndham Lewis; Copyright; Contents; Notes on Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Pre-War Writing; 2 Vorticism and Avant-Gardism; 3 'Harsh Laughter': Reading Tarr; 4 Lewis and War; 5 Lewis and Cultural Criticism; 6 Lewis, Satire, and Literature; 7 The Apes of God ; 8 Political Incorrectness Gone Sane: Lewis, Race, and Gender; 9 Lewis and Politics; 10 The Revenge for Love; 11 Lewis and Technology; 12 Lewis and Modernism; 13 The Human Age; 14 Self Condemned: Casualties of the Vortex; 15 Legacy ; Index.

Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) was one of the most innovative writers and painters of his time. An indefatigable critic of ideology, politics, and culture, Lewis was also one of modernism's key creative artists and a unique twentieth-century thinker. This book offers a scholarly companion to his written work.



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Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957 --Criticism and interpretation.


Electronic Books.

PR6023 / .W963 2015