Wyndham Lewis the Radical: Essays on Literature and Modernity

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.

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The Editor: Carmelo Cunchillos Jaime has held a Chair in English Literature at the University of La Rioja (Spain). He has published several critical discussions of the seventeenth- and eighteenth-century English translations of Don Quixote, and he has written about Salinger, D. H. Lawrence, Beckett, and Wyndham Lewis. He passed away in 2010.

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Contents: Alan Munton: Introduction: Wyndham Lewis Our Contemporary - David A. Wragg: Modernity's «Reality» - Wyndham Lewis, Blast 1, and the Critical Historiography of Modernism - María Jesús Hernáez Lerena: Are Lewis's Short Stories Pathological? - Michael Nath: «We Are Unknown to Ourselves, We Knowers»: More Thoughts on Lewis's «Paramount Influence» - Paul Edwards: The Apes of God and the English Classical Tradition - Melania Terrazas: Intricate Models of Conflict in Wyndham Lewis's Fiction - Peter L. Caracciolo: From Signorelli to Caligari: Allusions to Painting and Film in The Human Age and its Visual Precursors - Alan Munton: From Charlie Chaplin to Bill Haley: Popular Culture and Ideology in Wyndham Lewis - Carlos Villar Flor/Noelia Domínguez Carballo: Lewisian Footprints in Evelyn Waugh's Early Satires - Stan Smith: Broad-minded Leftwingers and Marxian Playboys: Wyndham Lewis, W. H. Auden and the Literary Left in the 1930s - Mar Asensio Aróstegui: Postmodernist (Dis)continuities: Jeanette Winterson's Silence on Wyndham Lewis.