Binckes, F (2017) "Whet your contentiousness": enemy material, 1927-1929. In: Modernist Studies Association 19: Modernism Today, 10 - 13 August, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Abstract
The first paper engages one of modernism’s most antagonistic figures: ‘the Enemy, Mr Wyndham Lewis’ and his emblematic magazine, 'The Enemy'(1927-1929). Departing from criticism that has analysed this publication for its explosive ideological positions, it uses Lewis’s career as an editor, publisher, and visual artist to re-examine The Enemy and ‘the Enemy’. Lewis’s satirical articles and paratextual material all meditate upon the construction of identity within the commodified institutions of print culture. However, Lewis’s attacks upon a modernism increasingly embedded in such institutions did not exempt him from those institutions, a paradox reflected in The Enemy’s curious graphic content.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Keywords: | Wyndham Lewis, modernism, magazines, antagonism |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature > PR English literature |
| Divisions: | School of Writing, Publishing and the Humanities |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Mar 2018 17:29 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2021 09:47 |
| URI / Page ID: | https://researchspace.bathspa.ac.uk/id/eprint/10066 |
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