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Wyndham Lewis A Revaluation
New Essays Edited by Jeffrey Meyers |
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Though T.S. Elliot called Wyndham Lewis ''the most fascinating personality of our time'' and ''the only one among my contemporaries to create a new, and original, prose style'', Lewis is perhaps the most neglected and under-rated major author of this century. But a strong revival of interest in his prose writings and art is under way and much new material has become available on which to base a fresh assessment of his work.
This volume contains eighteen specially commissioned essays which consider Lewis as novelist, philosopher, poet, critic and editor, and more briefly, in his complementary role as artist. It aims to stimulate critical appreciation of the depth and diversity of Lewis's fifty years of creative activity and of his role as a major intellectual force in modern English literature. |
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C O N T E N T S : |
| Marshall McLuhan: Lewis's Prose Style | John Holloway: Machine and Puppet – A Comparative View | Robert Chapman: Letters and Autobiographies | E. W. F. Tomlin: The Philosophical Influences | Timothy Materer: Lewis and the Patriarchs – Augustus John, W. B. Yeats, T. Sturge Moore | Bernard Lafourcade: The Taming of the Wild Body | Hugh Kenner: 'Mrs. Dukes' Million' – The Stunt of an Illusionist | Wendy Stallard Flory: 'Enemy of the Stars' | Alistair Davis: 'Tarr' – A Nietzchean Novel | Alan Munton: A Reading of 'The Childermass' | Paul Edwards: 'The Apes of God' – Form and Meaning | William M. Chase: On Lewis's Politics – The Polemics Polemically Answered | C. J. Fox: Lewis as Travel Writer – The Forgotten 'Filibusters in Barbary' | Rowland Smith: 'Snooty Baronet' – Satire and Censorship | William H. Pritchard: Literary Criticism as Satire | Valerie Parker: Enemies of the Absolute – Lewis, Art and Women | Jeffrey Meyers: 'Self Condemned' | D.G. Bridson: 'The Human Age' in Retrospect. |
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276 pages, Hardcover, 5 3/4'' x 8 3/4'' (225 x 145 mm)
English
ISBN: 0-485-11193-4 |
| $ 15.00 |
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