| Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist Contributor(s): Jameson, Fredric (Author) |
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ISBN: 1844672794 ISBN-13: 9781844672790 Publisher: Verso OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2008 Annotation: Jameson's controversial reading of one of the great twentieth-century writers. 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, is born of the fact that, unlike these writers, he was in essence a political novelist. Fredric Jameson proposes a framework in which Lewis's explosive language practice can be grasped as a symbolic and political act. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Fascism & Totalitarianism |
| Dewey: 828.912 |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6.14" W x 9.12" (0.72 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |