The Poetics of Mockery
The Poetics of Mockery reconsiders Wyndham Lewis’s adversarial role in the modernist movement through a close reading of his prodigious satire of 1920s cultural politics. It presents a new interpretation of The Apes of God as a Menippean satire, with attention to its style, characterization, allegor...
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| description | The Poetics of Mockery reconsiders Wyndham Lewis’s adversarial role in the modernist movement through a close reading of his prodigious satire of 1920s cultural politics. It presents a new interpretation of The Apes of God as a Menippean satire, with attention to its style, characterization, allegory, and historiography, and to Lewis’s polemics of the period. Previous studies have emphasized Lewis’s ‘external method’ of visual narration and the personal attacks on the London art world. This one delineates also the rhetorical and parodic elements in his mechanistic caricatures of literary impression and its proponents, besides the theory of participation and the ‘player’ behind his schizoid image of the modern subject. The study reinterprets the apprenticeship plot as a carnivalesque discrowning based on the primitive themes of the shaman and the scapegoat. It explores the ways in which the discursive ‘broadcasts’ — on the social exploitation of a subjectivist aesthetic, publicity as imposture, cultural levelling — are dramatized in the sado-masochistic bond between impresario and naïf and in the contradiction of carnival institutionalized. Lewis is shown using his rivals’ ‘mythic method’ to implicate the avant-garde itself in nascent mass culture. The study includes an analysis of the scandal surrounding Lewis’s private edition of The Apes and the defence of ‘non-moral’ satire presented in his subsequent pamphlet Satire & Fiction. Drawing upon unpublished manuscripts and correspondence, it demonstrates how Lewis’s own devious publicity campaign re-enacted the crux of the novel and epitomized his conflicts with his contemporaries. This book, originally published in paperback in 1995 under the ISBN 978-0-901286-52-9, was made Open Access in 2024 as part of the MHRA Revivals programme. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1479192025-07-21T15:45:03Z The Poetics of Mockery Perrino, Mark Drama Women Authors thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDN Netherlands thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MR 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100::3MRB Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050::3MRBF c 2010 to c 2019 thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSK Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers thema EDItEUR::1 Place qualifiers::1D Europe::1DD Western Europe::1DDN Netherlands thema EDItEUR::3 Time period qualifiers::3M c 1500 onwards to present day::3MR 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100::3MRB Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050::3MRBF c 2010 to c 2019 The Poetics of Mockery reconsiders Wyndham Lewis’s adversarial role in the modernist movement through a close reading of his prodigious satire of 1920s cultural politics. It presents a new interpretation of The Apes of God as a Menippean satire, with attention to its style, characterization, allegory, and historiography, and to Lewis’s polemics of the period. Previous studies have emphasized Lewis’s ‘external method’ of visual narration and the personal attacks on the London art world. This one delineates also the rhetorical and parodic elements in his mechanistic caricatures of literary impression and its proponents, besides the theory of participation and the ‘player’ behind his schizoid image of the modern subject. The study reinterprets the apprenticeship plot as a carnivalesque discrowning based on the primitive themes of the shaman and the scapegoat. It explores the ways in which the discursive ‘broadcasts’ — on the social exploitation of a subjectivist aesthetic, publicity as imposture, cultural levelling — are dramatized in the sado-masochistic bond between impresario and naïf and in the contradiction of carnival institutionalized. Lewis is shown using his rivals’ ‘mythic method’ to implicate the avant-garde itself in nascent mass culture. The study includes an analysis of the scandal surrounding Lewis’s private edition of The Apes and the defence of ‘non-moral’ satire presented in his subsequent pamphlet Satire & Fiction. Drawing upon unpublished manuscripts and correspondence, it demonstrates how Lewis’s own devious publicity campaign re-enacted the crux of the novel and epitomized his conflicts with his contemporaries. This book, originally published in paperback in 1995 under the ISBN 978-0-901286-52-9, was made Open Access in 2024 as part of the MHRA Revivals programme. 2024-11-16T04:22:45Z 2024-11-16T04:22:45Z 2024-11-15T10:32:09Z 1995 book ONIX_20241115_9781839546785_41 09570322 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/94723 9781839546785 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/147919 eng MHRA Texts and Dissertations open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94723/1/9781839546785.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/94723/1/9781839546785.pdf Modern Humanities Research Association Texts and Translations 10.59860/td.b48c5ea 10.59860/td.b48c5ea 263272ae-2045-451b-ac91-b0037a2fd63a 9781839546785 Texts and Translations 180 Cambridge open access |
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