Fables of Aggression

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 polit...See More