Wyndham Lewis the Radical: Essays on Literature and Modernity
©2007
Edited Collection
278 Pages
Summary
This volume about the modernist writer and artist Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) presents him as a radical figure in twentieth-century modernism. The authors rediscover aspects of Lewis’s work which show how his fiction challenges modernist norms, and how his acute and wide-ranging critique of culture has a vital contemporary relevance. Lewis’s range is extraordinary – it covers Nietzsche as well as classic cinema, Renaissance art and English classicism. Being politically conservative, he had nonetheless a place on the political left, and he can be seen as a postmodernist before his time. These essays by leading Spanish and British specialists reveal Lewis as one of the key modernists of our time.
Details
- Pages
- 278
- Year
- 2007
- ISBN (Softcover)
- 9783039112005
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- Lewis, Wyndham Aufsatzsammlung 20th Century Literature Poetics Arts Contemporary English Literary Criticism Comparative Literary Theory
- Published
- Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2007. 278 pp., 3 ill.