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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"Wyndham Lewis"”.
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Wyndham Lewis and his readers: 1911-1931
… public reception of the painting and writings of Wyndham Lewis from his first exhibitions in 1911 through to the publication of Hitler in 1931, and is based on a new checklist of criticism and reviews. The study shows that Lewis monitored his reputation with great care, and that many of his …
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Intercambio de recursos en la ficción de Percy Wyndham Lewis
… behaviour and resource exchanges of Lewis' main characters in these four creative worlds. In this regard, our analysis follows the results of various hypotheses proposed by Foa, which were tested in laboratory experiments and field studies. In order to describe their impact on the …
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The café in modernist literature: Wyndham Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Rhys
… focus upon the following authors in this order: Wyndham Lewis, Ernest Hemingway, and Jean Rhys. Contextualised by the café’s fundamental role in the lives of artists, the creation of art, and the great art movements throughout history, the thesis traces the ways in which the novelists engage …
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Towards a Phenomenology of Literary Language: Wyndham Lewis and the Expressions of Being
… reader to their rightful place as the subject of Wyndham Lewis’s writing. As a case study for a phenomenological approach to literary theory rooted in an exploration of the phenomenological potentialities of literary language, this thesis contemplates Lewis as an incarnated speaking subject …
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The Aesthete in The Novels of Ronald Firbank, Wyndham Lewis and James Joyce
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Rules of Engagement: Modernism's Impersonal Interior
… of individuality it supports. As shown in Wyndham Lewis' command that we impersonally ""substitute ourselves everywhere for the animal world,"" the potential collectivity established by an impersonal engagement may in fact end up subsuming the object of that connection into the subject who …
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"Moving Bodies: James Joyce and the ""New Physics"""
… up a dichotomy. On the one side, Joyce suggests Wyndham Lewis as representative of the Fascistic, ""hard"" modernist whose vision of art draws from out-dated Newtonian absolute reference frames. Contrary to this, Joyce represents himself as a ""soft,"" Einsteinian modernist, who (though flawed) …
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Literature in the age of mathematics: Gender and the multiplicity of modernity
… that writers such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis deploy mathematical metaphors to reinforce the qualities of abstraction, objectivity, and detachment typically associated with modernist writing, I argue instead that mathematics offers early-twentieth-century writers a new lexicon for …
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Literature in the age of mathematics: Gender and the multiplicity of modernity
… that writers such as Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and Wyndham Lewis deploy mathematical metaphors to reinforce the qualities of abstraction, objectivity, and detachment typically associated with modernist writing, I argue instead that mathematics offers early-twentieth-century writers a new lexicon for …
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The high wasteland, scar, form, and monstrosity in the English landscape: what is the function of the monster in representations of the English landscape?
… which examines the polemics and aesthetics of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957). In this regard, I look at Lewis’s monstrous Tyro and its role in eliciting dehumanisation as a defining value in conceptions of a stratified society. Emphasis on creative practices and representations related to England …
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The High Wasteland, Scar, Form, and Monstrosity in the English Landscape: What Is the Function of the Monster in Representations of the English Landscape?
… which examines the polemics and aesthetics of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957). In this regard, I look at Lewis’s monstrous Tyro and its role in eliciting dehumanisation as a defining value in conceptions of a stratified society. Emphasis on creative practices and representations related to England …
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‘The Grin upon the Deathshead’: A Study of Satire in 1920s British Art.
… profound social change is crucial. I begin with Wyndham Lewis, whose ‘Tyros and Portraits’ exhibition in 1921 seems to mark the emergence of a new, more bitter and cynical, brand of satire. Lewis’s return to figuration can be analysed in the context of the post-‐ war ‘rappel à l’ordre’, and his …
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Moments of Seeing: Woolf, Lewis, and Modernist Exteriority
… critical and creative work of Virginia Woolf and Wyndham Lewis, while standing at opposite ends of some glaring contradictions in the modernist period, explores a similar set of verbal and visual aesthetic problems that foregrounds the role of the exterior in the well-documented modernist …
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Cultural critique and canon formation, 1910-1937. A study in modernism and cultural memory
… satire in the relationship between Rodker and Wyndham Lewis, and offers a further explanatory justification for the argument of the thesis.
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Automatic Modernism: Habit, Embodiment, and the Politics of Literary Form
… fiction and non-fiction work of D. H. Lawrence, Wyndham Lewis, Rebecca West, and Samuel Beckett, this dissertation attempts to understand the recurrent equation of automatic behavior and twentieth-century modernity. Even as modernists vigorously rejected habitual behavior as the very element of …
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Among the Modernist Ruins: British Writing and the Architecture of the State
… for communist thought. Artist and writer Wyndham Lewis, who later identified his Vorticist artistic and literary movement as an effort to theorize a new architecture capable of inspiring a new social era, likewise feared that modern architecture had been appropriated by communism and …
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Modernism's laughing bodies: a taxonomy of the phenomenology of laughter
This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2016-11-30 at 16:34.