The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis

Description

The literary relationship of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis has previously been described in merely biographical terms. In The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis Scott W. Klein takes Wyndham Lewis's criticism of Ulysses in Time and Western Man and Joyce's implicit response to Lewis in Finnegans Wake as an emblematic opposition signalling significant textual relations within and between the fictions of the two authors. The seeing eye and the world, the creating mind and fiction, language and its aesthetic and political object, and the processes of history: all appear in the work of both Joyce and Lewis, as related thematic structures that raise questions about binarism, dialectic, and the reconciliation of opposites. Detailed examination of key texts by Joyce and Lewis reveals hitherto unperceived affiliations between the two writers, and offers new insight into the politics and aesthetics of modernism.

First Sentence

As a defense against accusations of madness, the narrator of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Tell-Tale Heart" confesses the history of his growing obsession with and ultimate murder of the old man with whom he lives.

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Other Editions

• The fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis: monsters of nature and designCambridge University Press1994-01-01
• The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham LewisPaperbackCambridge University Press2006-11-02
• Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham LewisCambridge University Press2009-01-01
• Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham LewisCambridge University Press2011-01-01