The Enemy - Meyers, Jeffrey

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Auteur(s) : Meyers, Jeffrey

Editeur : Routledge

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/10/2023

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 426

Expédition : 594

Dimensions : 23.4 x 15.6 x 2.3

ISBN : 9781032118703

Résumé :

Originally published in 1980 this was the first biography of Wyndham Lewis and was based on extensive archival research and interviews. Lewis is seen as an independent and courageous artist and one of the most controversial, stimulating figures in modern English art and literature.

Biographie:
Since 1992 Jeffrey Meyers has been a professional writer in Berkeley, California. He is one of ten Americans who are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature, and in 2005 received an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters 'to honor exceptional achievement.' Professor Meyers has published 54 books and 1,080 articles on art, film, and modern American, English and European literature. His wide range of interests include bibliography, editing, literary criticism and biography. He is a specialist in archival research and discovered important literary manuscripts by Wyndham Lewis.

Sommaire:

1. Childhood, Rugby and the Slade, 1882-1901 2. Bohemia and August John, 1902-1908 3. Ford and Pound, 1909-1912 4. Omega Workshops and Rebel Art Centre, 1913-1914 5. Vorticism and Blast, 1914 6. The Great War, 1914-1918 7. Women and Marriage, 1918-1925 8. Underground Man, 1919-1925 9. Man of the World, 1926-1929 10. The Apes of God, 1930 11. Politics, Germany and Hitler, 1930-1931 12. Combat and Suppression, 1931-1933 13. Lonely Old Volcano, 1934-1937 14. Rejection and Recantation, 1937-1939 15. New York, 1939-1940 16. Toronto, 1940-1943 17. Windsor and St. Louis, 1943-1945 18. Notting Hill, 1945-1949 19. Blindness, 1950-1954 20. The Human Age, 1955-1957.