The Agon of Modernism: Wyndham Lewis's Allegories, Aesthetics, and Politics.

Yearbook of English Studies | January 1, 2002| | Copyright

The Agon of Modernism: Wyndham Lewis's Allegories, Aesthetics, and Politics. By Anne Quema. Cranbury, NJ: Bucknell University Press; London: Associated University Presses. 1999. 242 pp. 30 [pounds sterling].

Two kinds of unsatisfactory criticism of Wyndham Lewis are at present current. One alters Lewis's texts in order to make him say what the critic requires, whilst the other relies upon what everybody knows about Lewis without being disturbed by what his texts actually say. In articles for the Wyndham Lewis Annual of 1997 and 1998 I have given examples of both ...

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