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Subject(s)

• Lewis, Wyndham 1882-1957—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]

Editor

• Miller, Tyrus, 1963- [Browse]

Summary note

"The Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis offers fresh insight into the fascinating and controversial works, both literary and visual, of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957). Accessible to students and scholars alike, this Companion illuminates key areas of Lewis's life and career. Written by a team of leading experts, this book examines Lewis's work in light of contemporary concerns with radical politics, feminism and queer perspectives, and the effects of mass media. Individual essays further illustrate the author's early leadership of the British artistic avant-garde, his varying later phases as a writer and painter, and his radical and changing political views, in addition to his complex views on gender and race, his relation to philosophy and theology, and his idiosyncratic practice of cultural criticism"-- Provided by publisher.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-176) and index.

Contents

• Introduction: Janus-faced Lewis, avant-gardist and satirist / Tyrus Miller
• Lewis and the European avant-gardes / Sascha Bru
• Lewis and the critique of modernism / Andrzej Gąsiorek
• Lewis as visual artist / Richard Humphreys
• Wyndham Lewis's theories of satire and the practice of fiction / Melania Terrazas
• Lewis, satire, and portraiture / Paul Edwards
• Lewis and fascism / Nathan Waddell
• Lewis, anarchism, and socialism / Alan Munton
• Race and anti-Semitism in Lewis / Lara Trubowitz
• Women, masculinity, and homosexuality in Lewis / Erin G. Carlston
• Lewis's cultural criticism / David Ayers
• Wyndham Lewis between philosophy and God / Erik Bachman
• Lewis and media / Julian Murphet.

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ISBN

• 9781107053984 ((hardback))
• 1107053986 ((hardback))
• 9781107645738 ((paperback))
• 1107645735 ((paperback))

LCCN

2015033496

OCLC

920854041

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