Body and Technology in the Modernism of Wyndham Lewis
Author: Anna Louise Burrells
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 53
ISBN-13:
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Modernism, Technology, and the Body
Author: Tim Armstrong
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998-02-28
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521599979
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a study of the relations between the body and its technologies in modernism. Tim Armstrong traces the links between modernist literary texts and medical, psychological and social theory across a range of writers, including Yeats, Henry James, Eliot, Stein, and Pound. Armstrong shows how modernist texts enact experimental procedures which have their origins in nineteenth-century psychophysics, biology, and bodily reform techniques, but within a context in which the body is reconceived and subjected to new modes of production, representation and commodification. Drawing on a wide range of disciplines, Armstrong challenges the received oppositions between technology and literature, the instrumental and the aesthetic, by demonstrating the leaky boundaries and complex interconnections between these domains. This book offers a cultural history of modernism as it negotiated the enduring fact of the human body in a period of rapid technological change.
Wyndham Lewis the Radical
Author: Carmelo Cunchillos Jaime
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9783039112005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume about the modernist writer and artist Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) presents him as a radical figure in twentieth-century modernism. The authors rediscover aspects of Lewis's work which show how his fiction challenges modernist norms, and how his acute and wide-ranging critique of culture has a vital contemporary relevance. Lewis's range is extraordinary - it covers Nietzsche as well as classic cinema, Renaissance art and English classicism. Being politically conservative, he had nonetheless a place on the political left, and he can be seen as a postmodernist before his time. These essays by leading Spanish and British specialists reveal Lewis as one of the key modernists of our time.
The Grotesque Modernist Body
Author: David Cruickshank
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 3031543467
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNovel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain
Author: Heather Fielding
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-04-26
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1108629296
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModernism reshaped novel theory, shifting criticism away from readers' experiences and toward the work as an object autonomous from any reader. Novel Theory and Technology in Modernist Britain excavates technology's crucial role in this evolution and offers a new history of modernism's vision of the novel. To many modernists, both novel and machine increasingly seemed to merge into the experiences of readers or users. But modernists also saw potential for a different understanding of technology - in pre-modern machines, or the technical functioning of technologies stripped of their current social roles. With chapters on Henry James, Ford Madox Ford, Wyndham Lewis, and Rebecca West, Novel Theory argues that in these alternative visions of technology, modernists found models for how the novel might become an autonomous, intellectual object rather than a familiar experience, and articulated a future for the novel by imagining it as a new kind of machine.
Bodies of Modernism
Author: Maren Linett
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 0472053310
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReveals the links, both positive and negative, between disabled bodies and aspects of modernism and modernity through readings of a wide range of literary texts
Re-Covering Modernism
Author: David M Earle
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-03-03
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1317070119
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the first half of the twentieth century, modernist works appeared not only in obscure little magazines and books published by tiny exclusive presses but also in literary reprint magazines of the 1920s, tawdry pulp magazines of the 1930s, and lurid paperbacks of the 1940s. In his nuanced exploration of the publishing and marketing of modernist works, David M. Earle questions how and why modernist literature came to be viewed as the exclusive purview of a cultural elite given its availability in such popular forums. As he examines sensational and popular manifestations of modernism, as well as their reception by critics and readers, Earle provides a methodology for reconciling formerly separate or contradictory materialist, cultural, visual, and modernist approaches to avant-garde literature. Central to Earle's innovative approach is his consideration of the physical aspects of the books and magazines - covers, dust wrappers, illustrations, cost - which become texts in their own right. Richly illustrated and accessibly written, Earle's study shows that modernism emerged in a publishing ecosystem that was both richer and more complex than has been previously documented.
Modernism and the Machinery of Madness
Author: Andrew Gaedtke
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-10-26
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1108304664
DOWNLOAD EBOOKModernism and the Machinery of Madness demonstrates the emergence of a technological form of paranoia within modernist culture which transformed much of the period's experimental fiction. Gaedtke argues that the works of writers such as Samuel Beckett, Anna Kavan, Wyndham Lewis, Mina Loy, Evelyn Waugh, and others respond to the collapse of categorical distinctions between human and machine. Modern British and Irish novels represent a convergence between technological models of the mind and new media that were often regarded as 'thought-influencing machines'. Gaedtke shows that this literary paranoia comes into new focus when read in light of twentieth-century memoirs of mental illness. By thinking across the discourses of experimental fiction, mental illness, psychiatry, cognitive science, and philosophy of mind, this book shows the historical and conceptual sources of this confusion as well as the narrative responses. This book contributes to the fields of modernist studies, disability studies, and medical humanities.
Modernism, Science, and Technology
Author: Mark S. Morrisson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-11-17
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1474233430
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom quantum physics and genetics to psychology and the social sciences, from the development of atomic weapons to the growing mass media of film and radio, the early 20th century was a period of intense scientific and technological change. Modernism, Science, and Technology surveys the scientific contexts of writers from H.G. Wells and Gertrude Stein to James Joyce and Virginia Woolf and the ways in modernist writers responded to these paradigm shifts. Introducing key concepts from science studies and their implications for the study of modernist literature, the book includes chapters covering the physical sciences, mathematics, life sciences, social sciences and 'pseudosciences'. Including a timeline of key developments and guides to further reading, this is an essential guide to students and researchers studying the topic at all levels.
Wyndham Lewis and the Avant-Garde
Author: Toby Foshay
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780773509160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt has always been difficult to determine Wyndham Lewis's position within the Modernist movement. Despite his status as one of the "big five" modernists -- along with W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and James Joyce -- Lewis is the least read and least understood of significant modern English writers. At once both modernist and anti-modernist -- Lewis was a founder, before the First World War, of Vorticism and a critic, after the war, of what he considered modernism's sell-out to the art establishment -- he has remained the most obscure and the least easily categorized of the canonical modernists.
