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Fables of Aggression - Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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Fables of Aggression - Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist (Paperback, Illustrated Ed)
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The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the
work of the great modernists-Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats-who were
his sometime friends and collaborators. Lewis's originality,
however, can only be fully grasped when it is understood that,
unlike those writers, he was essentially a political novelist. In
this now classic study, Fredric Jameson proposes a framework in
which Lewis's explosive language practice-utterly unlike any other
English or American modernism-can be grasped as a political and
symbolic act. He does not, however, ask us to admire the energy of
Lewis's style without confronting the inescapable and often
scandalous ideological content of Lewis's works: the aggressivity
and sexism, the predilection for racial and national categories,
the brief flirtation with fascism, and the inveterate and cranky
oppositionalism that informs his powerful polemics against
virtually all the political and countercultural tendencies of his
time. Fables of Aggression draws on the methods of narrative
analysis and semiotics, psychoanalysis, and ideological analysis to
construct a dynamic model of the contradictions from which Lewis's
incomparable narrative corpus is generated, and of which it offers
so many varying symbolic resolutions.
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