From Popularization to Apologia: Modernism in Wyndham Lewis’s Autobiographies
The article analyzes how modernism is represented in two Wyndham Lewis‘s autobiographies, «Blasting and Bombardiering» (1937) and «Rude Assignment» (1950). The author‘s reflection on modernism is considered within the context of his critical attitude towards the autobiographical in modernist novel a...
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Ural State Pedagogical University
2015-03-01
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| description | The article analyzes how modernism is represented in two Wyndham Lewis‘s autobiographies, «Blasting and Bombardiering» (1937) and «Rude Assignment» (1950). The author‘s reflection on modernism is considered within the context of his critical attitude towards the autobiographical in modernist novel and taking into account the changes in his autobiographical intentions from one book to the other. The article concludes that in Lewis‘s far from experimental use of autobiography the latter acts as a means of definition, popularization and justification of his conception of modernism considered to be, just as his autobiographies, an act of detachment rather than exploration of subjectivity. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d198477be5b944ad9f7c71b35d2692a92023-05-31T04:44:20ZrusUral State Pedagogical UniversityФилологический класс2071-24052658-52352015-03-013 (41)99105From Popularization to Apologia: Modernism in Wyndham Lewis’s AutobiographiesThe article analyzes how modernism is represented in two Wyndham Lewis‘s autobiographies, «Blasting and Bombardiering» (1937) and «Rude Assignment» (1950). The author‘s reflection on modernism is considered within the context of his critical attitude towards the autobiographical in modernist novel and taking into account the changes in his autobiographical intentions from one book to the other. The article concludes that in Lewis‘s far from experimental use of autobiography the latter acts as a means of definition, popularization and justification of his conception of modernism considered to be, just as his autobiographies, an act of detachment rather than exploration of subjectivity.https://filclass.ru/en/archive/2015/41/from-popularization-to-apologia-modernism-in-wyndham-lewis-s-autobiographiesautobiography, wyndham lewis, modernism, english literature |
| spellingShingle | From Popularization to Apologia: Modernism in Wyndham Lewis’s Autobiographies Филологический класс autobiography, wyndham lewis, modernism, english literature |
| title | From Popularization to Apologia: Modernism in Wyndham Lewis’s Autobiographies |
| title_full | From Popularization to Apologia: Modernism in Wyndham Lewis’s Autobiographies |
| title_fullStr | From Popularization to Apologia: Modernism in Wyndham Lewis’s Autobiographies |
| title_full_unstemmed | From Popularization to Apologia: Modernism in Wyndham Lewis’s Autobiographies |
| title_short | From Popularization to Apologia: Modernism in Wyndham Lewis’s Autobiographies |
| title_sort | from popularization to apologia modernism in wyndham lewis s autobiographies |
| topic | autobiography, wyndham lewis, modernism, english literature |
| url | https://filclass.ru/en/archive/2015/41/from-popularization-to-apologia-modernism-in-wyndham-lewis-s-autobiographies |