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Wyndam Lewis in 1916
 
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There are 24 critical essays on Wyndham Lewis.

Critical Essays on Wyndham Lewis
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Critical Essay by Andrea Freud Lowenstein
30,349 words, approx. 101 pages
In the following excerpt, Lowenstein presents a detailed analysis of Lewis's body of work to identify Lewis as a misogynist, nazi, and homophobe.
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Critical Essay by Vincent Sherry
24,118 words, approx. 80 pages
In the following excerpt, Sherry examines Lewis's visual art as well as his body of written work to support his claim that Lewis failed to present a philosophically cohesive, unified body of work.
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Critical Essay by Sharon Stockton
9,254 words, approx. 31 pages
In the following excerpt, Stockton traces Lewis's political and philosophical development.
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Critical Essay by Anne Quema
9,097 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following excerpt, Quema identifies Lewis as an unfairly neglected master of modernist literature.
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Critical Essay by Sue Ellen Campbell
9,096 words, approx. 30 pages
In the following essay, Campbell identifies key philosophical influences on Lewis's critical theories, fiction, and nonfiction, including Oswald Spengler, Albert Einstein, and Julien Benda.
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Critical Essay by Paul Edwards
8,815 words, approx. 29 pages
In the following excerpt, Edwards declares Lewis more successful as a visual artist, and explores Lewis's short story “The Death of the Ankou.”
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Critical Essay by Daniel Schenker
8,403 words, approx. 28 pages
In the following excerpt, Schenker declares that Lewis's politics and morality prevent him from receiving acknowledgement as a major cultural figure.
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Critical Essay by Victor M. Cassidy
8,121 words, approx. 27 pages
In the following excerpt, Cassidy presents biographical details of Lewis's childhood to explain his later inability to focus his art.
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Critical Essay by Robert T. Chapman
7,768 words, approx. 26 pages
In the following essay, Chapman examines the development of Lewis's style and themes in his early stories and their later revision in The Wild Body, pointing out that Lewis's early socio-psychological concerns were later abandoned for a greater interest in more abstract philosophical ideas.
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Critical Essay by Andrew Hewitt
7,130 words, approx. 24 pages
In the following excerpt, Hewitt responds to Fredric Jameson's conclusions in Fables of Aggression: Wyndham Lewis as Fascist, and explores Lewis's attitudes toward nazis and homosexuals.
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Critical Essay by Keith Tuma
6,622 words, approx. 22 pages
In the following essay, Tuma discusses Vorticist tenets as evidenced by the material Lewis wrote or accepted for the journal Blast.
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Critical Essay by Scott Klein
6,428 words, approx. 21 pages
In the following excerpt, Klein places Lewis within the early twentieth-century's avant-garde, and declares Lewis's play, The Enemy of the Stars, an important example of Vorticist art.
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Critical Essay by Kelly Anspaugh
6,091 words, approx. 20 pages
In the following excerpt, Anspaugh examines Lewis's critical reaction to the writings of Virgina Woolf and James Joyce.
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Critical Essay by Geoffrey Wagner
5,411 words, approx. 18 pages
In the following essay, Wagner argues that the collection of stories The Wild Body embodies Lewis's theory and practice of satire, explaining that his political thinking and comic sense have their roots in the conflict between the savage body and the cultivated intellect, and further that satire is at the heart of Lewis 's realism.
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Critical Essay by Bernard Lafourcade
5,231 words, approx. 17 pages
In the following afterword to a collection of Lewis's stories, Lafourcade, following Lewis's own example, catalogues the six basic "Attributes " of the Wild Body stories, which are "a real presence," "fascination," "comedy, " "tragedy, " "The grotesque, " and "The absurd. "
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Critical Essay by Timothy Materer
4,547 words, approx. 15 pages
In the following essay, Materer discusses Lewis's comic theory and sense of irony in The Wild Body, arguing that the narrator of the sequence of stories, Ker-Orr, like Lewis, views the world from a detached but not disinterested perspective and sees comedy as springing from the discrepancies between human beings' physical bodies and intellectual aspirations.
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Critical Essay by C. J. Fox and Robert T. Chapman
3,765 words, approx. 13 pages
In the following introduction to a collection of Lewis's short fiction, Fox and Chapman provide an overview of Lewis's work in the genre and touch on some major elements that mark his short stories, including their peculiar sense of dark comedy; rootedness in the politics and culture of the day; unsympathetic portrayal of women; interest in violence; and recurrence of the figure of the Impostor.
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Critical Essay by John Russell
3,711 words, approx. 12 pages
In the following essay, Russell examines elements of tragedy in Lewis's novel, Revenge for Love.
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Critical Essay by Hugh Kenner
2,182 words, approx. 7 pages
In the following excerpt, Kenner contends that the protagonist of Lewis's short story "Cantelman 's Spring-Mate " is a fusion of two characters, Tarr and Kreisler, from his novel Tarr, and embodies Lewis's interest in the interrelated conflicts between mind and body, logic and emotion, intellect and animal nature.
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Critical Essay by Wyndham Lewis
1,867 words, approx. 6 pages
In the following essay, the foreword to his volume of stories Rotting Hill, Lewis characterizes his work in the collection as showcasing the "universal wreckage and decay"prevalent in politics and social life in post-World War II, socialist Britain.
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Critical Essay by William H. Pritchard
1,719 words, approx. 6 pages
In the following excerpt from a book-length study of Lewis's life and work, Pritchard considers Lewis's collection of stories Rotting Hill an artistic failure, noting that the collection 's lack of vitality and imagination mirrors the grey austereness of socialist Britain that was the target of Lewis's reproach in the stories.
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Critical Essay by Kelly Anspaugh
1,487 words, approx. 5 pages
In the following excerpt, Anspaugh argues that the protagonist of Lewis's story "The Doppelgänger" can be seen to represent Lewis's friend Ezra Pound, while the "Stranger" who in the tale proves to be the protagonist's alter ego and superior as a poet, scholar, and man, is a symbol for Lewis himself
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Critical Essay by Conrad Aiken
1,083 words, approx. 4 pages
In the following review of The Wild Body, originally published in the New York Post in 1928, Aiken admires what he considers Lewis 's first-rate narration in his psychological short stories, but finds that the writer's self-conscious theorizing mars his otherwise brilliant work.
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Critical Essay by Rachel Annand Taylor
215 words, approx. 1 pages
In the following excerpt from an early review, Taylor finds the "noise and fury" of Lewis's satire in The Wild Body distasteful


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