Wyndham Lewis and literary modernist studies
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2009-08-11T21:02:29Z
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Ross, Stephen
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Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound’s relation to other modernists and subsequently, to modernist scholarship are contrasted. Lewis’s self-positioning as “the Enemy” had ramifications for his later acceptance into the modernist canon. The paper suggests a re-evaluation of the work of Lewis as an important and perhaps unfairly neglected central figure of modernism.
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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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Lewis, Wyndham, 1882-1957, Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972, modernism, Wyndham Lewis and Modernism