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Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist

1982; Modern Humanities Research Association; Volume: 77; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/3726526

2222-4319

Michael Wilding, Fredric Jameson,

Irish and British Studies

The novels of Wyndham Lewis have generally been associated with the work of the great modernists - Joyce, Pound, Eliot, Yeats - who were his sometime friends and collaborators. Lewis' originality, however, is born of the fact that, unlike these writers, he was in essence a political novelist. Fredric Jameson proposes a framework in which Lewis' explosive language practice can be grasped as a symbolic and political act.