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Wyndham Lewis and the Avant-Garde : The Politics of the Intellect by Toby Avard Foshay is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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Toby Foshay's penetrating study of Lewis presents a two-pronged argument that will help to lift Lewis from this obscurity. First, he reveals that Lewis is less interested in stylistic and formal innovation than he is committed to artistic, philosophical, and political transformations. As such, Lewis is not a modernist but, in the sense of the term as employed by theoretician Peter Burger, an avant-gardiste. Second, Foshay demonstrates that Lewis's development as an artist is inextricably linked
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- Author
- Toby Avard Foshay
- Publisher
- ACP - McGill Queen's University Press
- Published
- 1992
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781282856004
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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