Ezra Pound Wyndham Lewis And Radical Modernism

Author : Vincent Sherry
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195360311
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism written by Vincent Sherry and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-25 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis developed a highly experimental art; they were attracted simultaneously to political programs remarkably backward in outlook--the autocracies of Fascist Italy and Germany. That paradox, central to the problematic achievement of Anglo-American modernism, is freshly addressed in this study. Here Sherry examines the influence of music and painting on literature, presents original research on European intellectual history, and proposes a new understanding of ideology as a force in the literary imagination. Following the example of continental ideologues, the English modernists use the material of aesthetic experience to prove truths of human nature, making art the basis for social values and recommendations. This sensibility enriches their work, shaping the varied textures of Pound's Cantos and the complex designs of Lewis's painting and fiction, but their mastery of avant-garde techniques endorses the authority of an antique state. Sherry returns their "totalitarian synthesis" of art and politics to its originating moment, following its trajectory from 1910 to the eve of World War II.

Author : Vincent B. Sherry
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780197724064
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis, and Radical Modernism written by Vincent B. Sherry and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the relation between the aesthetic convictions and political opinions of the Anglo-American modernists, focusing on the collaboration between Pound and Lewis. It attempts to account for their parallel movements towards the parties of European fascism.

Author : Anne Quéma
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838753927
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Agon of Modernism written by Anne Quéma and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lewis's political writings present ambiguities: his stated belief in the autonomy of art from life is contradicted by other statements he made and by his critical analyses of writers; and his political writings blur any a priori generic distinction between art and non-art. Given this blurring between art and life, artistic genre and non-artistic genre, Quema claims that Lewis's political texts present characteristics usually attributed to avant-gardism. However, this radicalism has to be balanced against Lewis's conservatism. Thus his political writings can be read as allegories with two pragmatic aims: to organize the life of the polis from an artistic standpoint and to persuade the reader to adhere to authoritarian politics."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Andrzej Gasiorek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134788991
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity written by Andrzej Gasiorek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making a strong case for a revaluation of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), this collection argues that significant aspects of Lewis's writing, painting, and thinking have not yet received the attention they deserve. The contributors explore Lewis's contributions to the production and circulation of modernism and assess the links between Lewis's writing and painting and the work of other key contemporary figures, to position Lewis not only as one of the first twentieth-century cultural critics but also as one who anticipated the work of the Frankfurt School and other social theorists. Familiar topics and themes such as Vorticism receive fresh appraisals, and Lewis's significance as a philosopher-critic, novelist, and artist becomes fully realized in the context of his associations with important figures such as John Rodker, Charlie Chaplin, Evelyn Waugh, Naomi Mitchison, and Rebecca West. Lewis emerges as a figure whose writings on politics, corporate patronage, shell shock, anthropology, art, and cinema extend their influence into the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Author : Scott W. Klein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521030161
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis written by Scott W. Klein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relationship between the work of Joyce and Lewis, expressed through similar themes and structures.

Author : Andrzej Gasiorek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134788924
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity written by Andrzej Gasiorek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making a strong case for a revaluation of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), this collection argues that significant aspects of Lewis's writing, painting, and thinking have not yet received the attention they deserve. The contributors explore Lewis's contributions to the production and circulation of modernism and assess the links between Lewis's writing and painting and the work of other key contemporary figures, to position Lewis not only as one of the first twentieth-century cultural critics but also as one who anticipated the work of the Frankfurt School and other social theorists. Familiar topics and themes such as Vorticism receive fresh appraisals, and Lewis's significance as a philosopher-critic, novelist, and artist becomes fully realized in the context of his associations with important figures such as John Rodker, Charlie Chaplin, Evelyn Waugh, Naomi Mitchison, and Rebecca West. Lewis emerges as a figure whose writings on politics, corporate patronage, shell shock, anthropology, art, and cinema extend their influence into the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Author : Dr Nathan Waddell
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409479013
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity written by Dr Nathan Waddell and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making a strong case for a revaluation of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), this collection argues that significant aspects of Lewis's writing, painting, and thinking have not yet received the attention they deserve. The contributors explore Lewis's contributions to the production and circulation of modernism and assess the links between Lewis's writing and painting and the work of other key contemporary figures, to position Lewis not only as one of the first twentieth-century cultural critics but also as one who anticipated the work of the Frankfurt School and other social theorists. Familiar topics and themes such as Vorticism receive fresh appraisals, and Lewis's significance as a philosopher-critic, novelist, and artist becomes fully realized in the context of his associations with important figures such as John Rodker, Charlie Chaplin, Evelyn Waugh, Naomi Mitchison, and Rebecca West. Lewis emerges as a figure whose writings on politics, corporate patronage, shell shock, anthropology, art, and cinema extend their influence into the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

Author : Toby Foshay
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773509160
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Wyndham Lewis and the Avant-Garde written by Toby Foshay and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has always been difficult to determine Wyndham Lewis's position within the Modernist movement. Despite his status as one of the "big five" modernists -- along with W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce -- Lewis is the least read and least understood of significant modern English writers. At once both modernist and anti-modernist -- Lewis was a founder, before the First World War, of Vorticism and a critic, after the war, of what he considered modernism's sell-out to the art establishment -- he has remained the most obscure and the least easily categorized of the canonical modernists.

Author : Nathan O'Donnell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1789621666
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Wyndham Lewis's Cultural Criticism and the Infrastructures of Patronage written by Nathan O'Donnell and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the firstbook-length study of Wyndham Lewis's cultural criticism, a valuable body ofwriting which posed questions that have yet to be answered about the role andstatus of the artist in a professionalised society, and ultimately about thevalue (economic, civic, political) of the work of art.

Author : David G. Farley
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826272282
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Download or read book Modernist Travel Writing written by David G. Farley and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the study of travel writing has grown in recent years, scholars have largely ignored the literature of modernist writers. Modernist Travel Writing: Intellectuals Abroad, by David Farley, addresses this gap by examining the ways in which a number of writers employed the techniques and stylistic innovations of modernism in their travel narratives to variously engage the political, social, and cultural milieu of the years between the world wars. Modernist Travel Writing argues that the travel book is a crucial genre for understanding the development of modernism in the years between the wars, despite the established view that travel writing during the interwar period was largely an escapist genre—one in which writers hearkened back to the realism of nineteenth-century literature in order to avoid interwar anxiety. Farley analyzes works that exist on the margins of modernism, generically and geographically, works that have yet to receive the critical attention they deserve, partly due to their classification as travel narratives and partly because of their complex modernist styles. The book begins by examining the ways that travel and the emergent travel regulations in the wake of the First World War helped shape Ezra Pound’s Cantos. From there, it goes on to examine E. E. Cummings’s frustrated attempts to navigate the “unworld” of Soviet Russia in his book Eimi,Wyndham Lewis’s satiric journey through colonial Morocco in Filibusters in Barbary,and Rebecca West’s urgent efforts to make sense of the fractious Balkan states in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon. These modernist writers traveled to countries that experienced most directly the tumult of revolution, the effects of empire, and the upheaval of war during the years between World War I and World War II. Farley’s study focuses on the question of what constitutes “evidence” for Pound, Lewis, Cummings, and West as they establish their authority as eyewitnesses, translate what they see for an audience back home, and attempt to make sense of a transformed and transforming modern world. Modernist Travel Writing makes an original contribution to the study of literary modernism while taking a distinctive look at a unique subset within the growing field of travel writing studies. David Farley’s work will be of interest to students and teachers in both of these fields as well as to early-twentieth-century literary historians and general enthusiasts of modernist studies.