Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity

Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity
Author: Dr Nathan Waddell
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2013-05-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1409479013

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.

Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity

Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity
Author: Andrzej Gąsiorek
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2011
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781409400547

Making a strong case for a revaluation of Wyndham Lewis, this collection argues that significant aspects of Lewis's writing, painting and thinking have not yet received the attention they deserve. Lewis's contributions to the production and circulation of modernism and the links between Lewis's writing and painting are explored in the context of other key figures of the twentieth century.

Wyndham Lewis's Cultural Criticism and the Infrastructures of Patronage

Wyndham Lewis's Cultural Criticism and the Infrastructures of Patronage
Author: Nathan O'Donnell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2020
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1789621666

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.

Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity

Wyndham Lewis and the Cultures of Modernity
Author: Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2019-05-31
Genre:
ISBN: 9781138379602

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.

Mortality and Form in Late Modernist Literature

Mortality and Form in Late Modernist Literature
Author: John Whittier-Ferguson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2014-10-27
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 110706001X

This monograph underscores the way in which mortality functions in the later poetry and prose of major modernist writers.

A Modernist Cinema

A Modernist Cinema
Author: Scott W. Klein
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0190912138

In A Modernist Cinema, sixteen distinguished scholars in the field of the New Modernist Studies explore the interrelationships among modernism, cinema, and modernity. Focusing on several culturally influential films from Europe, America, and Asia produced between 1914 and 1941, this collection of essays contends that cinema was always a modernist enterprise. Examining the dialectical relationship between a modernist cinema and modernity itself, these essays reveal how the movies represented and altered our notions and practices of modern life, as well as how the so-called crises of modernity shaped the evolution of filmmaking. Attending to the technical achievements and formal qualities of the works of several prominent directors - Giovanni Pastrone, D. W. Griffith, Sergei Eisenstein, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock, F. W. Murnau, Carl Theodore Dreyer, Dziga Vertov, Luis Buñuel, Yasujiro Ozu, John Ford, Jean Renoir, Charlie Chaplin, Leni Riefenstahl, and Orson Welles - these essays investigate several interrelated topics: how a modernist cinema represented and intervened in the political and social struggles of the era; the ambivalent relationship between cinema and the other modernist arts; the controversial interconnection between modern technology and the new art of filmmaking; the significance of representing the mobile human body in a new medium; the gendered history of modernity; and the transformative effects of cinema on modern conceptions of temporality, spatial relations, and political geography.

Vibratory Modernism

Vibratory Modernism
Author: A. Enns
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2013-07-19
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1137027258

Vibratory Modernism is a collection of original essays that show how vibrations provide a means of bridging science and art - two fields that became increasingly separate in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Satirizing Modernism

Satirizing Modernism
Author: Emmett Stinson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2017-06-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1501329103

Satirizing Modernism examines 20th-century novels that satirize avant-garde artists and authors while also using experimental techniques associated with literary modernism. These novels-such as Wyndham Lewis's The Apes of God, William Gaddis's The Recognitions, and Gilbert Sorrentino's Imaginative Qualities of Actual Things-were under-recognized and received poor reviews at the time of publication, but have increasingly been acknowledged as both groundbreaking and deeply influential. Satirizing Modernism analyzes these novels in order to present an alternative account of literary modernism, which should be viewed neither as a radical break with the past nor an outmoded set of aesthetics overtaken by a later postmodernism. In self-reflexively critiquing their own aesthetics, these works express an unconventional modernism that both revises literary history and continues to be felt today.

A History of Modernist Literature

A History of Modernist Literature
Author: Andrzej Gasiorek
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2015-04-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1118607333

A History of Modernist Literature offers a critical overview of modernism in England between the late 1890s and the late 1930s, focusing on the writers, texts, and movements that were especially significant in the development of modernism during these years. A stimulating and coherent account of literary modernism in England which emphasizes the artistic achievements of particular figures and offers detailed readings of key works by the most significant modernist authors whose work transformed early twentieth-century English literary culture Provides in-depth discussion of intellectual debates, the material conditions of literary production and dissemination, and the physical locations in which writers lived and worked The first large-scale book to provide a systematic overview of modernism as it developed in England from the late 1890s through to the late 1930s

Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century

Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century
Author: A. Reeve-Tucker
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 213
Release: 2013-05-07
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137336625

Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century considers the links between utopianism and modernism in two ways: as an under-theorized nexus of aesthetic and political interactions; and as a sphere of confluences that challenges accepted critical models of modernist and twentieth-century literary history. An international group of scholars considers works by E. M. Forster, Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, Naomi Mitchison, Katharine Burdekin, Rex Warner, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Thomas Pynchon, Elizabeth Bowen, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, and Ernst Bloch. In doing so, this volume's contributors prompt new reflections on key aspects of utopianism in experimental twentieth-century literature and non-fictional writing; deepen literary-historical understandings of modernism's socio-political implications; and bear out the on-going relevance of modernism's explorations of utopian thought. Utopianism, Modernism, and Literature in the Twentieth Century will appeal to anyone with an interest in how deeply and how differently modernist writers, as well as writers influenced by or resistant to modernist styles, engaged with issues of utopianism, perfectibility, and social betterment.