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Title: Fables of Aggression
Condition: New
EAN: 9781844672790
ISBN: 9781844672790
Publisher: Verso Books
Format: Paperback
Release Date: 17/08/2008
Item Height: 234mm
Item Length: 155mm
Item Width: 15mm
Item Weight: 327g
Author: Fredric Jameson
Language: English
Subtitle: Wyndham Lewis, the Modernist as Fascist
ISBN-10: 1844672794
Description: 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's originality, however, can only be fully grasped when it is understood that, unlike those writers, he was essentially a political novelist.
In this now classic study, Fredric Jameson proposes a framework in which Lewis's explosive language practice-utterly unlike any other English or American modernism-can be grasped as a political and symbolic act. He does not, however, ask us to admire the energy of Lewis's style without confronting the inescapable and often scandalous ideological content of Lewis's works: the aggressivity and sexism, the predilection for racial and national categories, the brief flirtation with fascism, and the inveterate and cranky oppositionalism that informs his powerful polemics against virtually all the political and countercultural tendencies of his time.
Fables of Aggression draws on the methods of narrative analysis and semiotics, psychoanalysis, and ideological analysis to construct a dynamic model of the contradictions from which Lewis's incomparable narrative corpus is generated, and of which it offers so many varying symbolic resolutions.
Country/Region of Manufacture: GB
Genre: Literary Criticism
Release Year: 2008

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