Wyndham Lewis The Novelist
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Few figures in modernist literature are as electrifying and as persistently undervalued as Percy Wyndham Lewis — painter, polemicist, and novelist of savage brilliance. Timothy Materer's critical study presents a rigorous and illuminating examination of Lewis's fiction, arguing that his novels deserve a central place in the canon of 20th-century English literature. Materer chronicles the development of Lewis's narrative voice across works such as Tarr, The Apes of God, and Self Condemned, detailing how Lewis wielded satire and philosophical aggression as literary weapons against the sentimentality and complacency of his era. Materer's analysis illuminates the deep intellectual currents running beneath Lewis's fiction — his engagement with Nietzsche, his hostility toward Bergsonian time-philosophy, and his complex relationship with contemporaries like Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. Written with scholarly precision and genuine critical enthusiasm, this study restores Lewis to his rightful position as one of modernism's most challenging and original voices. For readers who thought they knew the contours of literary modernism, Wyndham Lewis the Novelist offers a provocative reassessment that demands attention.
Author: Timothy Materer
Format: Hardback
Published: 1976, Wayne State University Press
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good to fair. Jacket: good. Page Condition: Good. Markings: none.
Few figures in modernist literature are as electrifying and as persistently undervalued as Percy Wyndham Lewis — painter, polemicist, and novelist of savage brilliance. Timothy Materer's critical study presents a rigorous and illuminating examination of Lewis's fiction, arguing that his novels deserve a central place in the canon of 20th-century English literature. Materer chronicles the development of Lewis's narrative voice across works such as Tarr, The Apes of God, and Self Condemned, detailing how Lewis wielded satire and philosophical aggression as literary weapons against the sentimentality and complacency of his era. Materer's analysis illuminates the deep intellectual currents running beneath Lewis's fiction — his engagement with Nietzsche, his hostility toward Bergsonian time-philosophy, and his complex relationship with contemporaries like Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot. Written with scholarly precision and genuine critical enthusiasm, this study restores Lewis to his rightful position as one of modernism's most challenging and original voices. For readers who thought they knew the contours of literary modernism, Wyndham Lewis the Novelist offers a provocative reassessment that demands attention.