Towards a Canadian Vorticism: Wyndham Lewis in Canadian literature
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2009-08-11T21:03:36Z
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Betts, Gregory
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This paper on Vorticism and Futurism in Canadian literature explores three specific examples of Wyndham Lewis’s influence on Canadian authors and begins the process of proposing a Canadian Vorticism. The authors under consideration include Marshall McLuhan, Sheila Watson, and Bertram Brooker – three of Canada’s most acclaimed figures in cultural theory, novels, and art, respectively.
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The Wyndham Lewis and Modernism symposium was a one day event organized by the University of Victoria Libraries as part of The Lion and the Fox exhibition. The exhibition, which ran from April 1-May 28, 2009 at the Mearns Centre for Learning, celebrated C.J. Fox’s donation of the material he collected about Lewis and other non-conformist writers over a 50 year period.
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Canadian literature, Canadian art, Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957, Modernism, Vorticism, Futurism, Wyndham Lewis and Modernism