Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis

Informationen zum Autor Tyrus Miller is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Late Modernism: Politics, Fiction, and the Arts between the World Wars; Singular Examples: Artistic Politics and the Neo-Avant-Garde; Time Images: Alternative Temporalities in Twentieth-Century Theory, History, and Art; and Modernism and the Frankfurt School. Klappentext This Companion offers fresh insight into the controversial works, both literary and visual, of Wyndham Lewis. Zusammenfassung This Companion offers fresh insight into the controversial works! both literary and visual! of Wyndham Lewis. 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Lewis and the European avant-gardes Sascha Bru; 2. Lewis and the critique of modernism Andrzej Gasiorek; 3. Lewis as visual artist Richard Humphreys; 4. Lewis's theories of satire and the practice of fiction Melania Terrazas; 5. Lewis, satire, and portraiture Paul Edwards; 6. Lewis and fascism Nathan Waddell; 7. Lewis, anarchism, and socialism Alan Munton; 8. Race and anti-Semitism in Lewis Lara Trubowitz; 9. Women, masculinity, and homosexuality in Lewis Erin G. Carlston; 10. Lewis's cultural criticism David Ayers; 11. Lewis between philosophy and god Erik Bachman; 12. Lewis and media Julian Murphet.

Product details

• Authors: Tyrus Miller, Tyrus (University of California Miller
• Assisted by: Tyrus Miller (Editor), Miller Tyrus (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.02.2016
• EAN: 9781107053984
• ISBN: 978-1-107-05398-4
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Literature; Cambridge Companions to Litera; Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form