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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813814703321

Titolo

Counter-blasting Canada : Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson / / edited by Gregory Betts, Paul Hjartarson, and Kristine Smitka

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edmonton, Alberta : , : The University of Alberta Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-77212-151-7

1-77212-149-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (345 p.)

Disciplina

810.9/0054

Soggetti

Canadian literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Vorticism - Canada

Canada Intellectual life 20th century

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Epigraph: re maelström and vortex; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction | Betts, Hjartarson and Msitka; ANALEPSIS; 1 Remembering McLuhan | Surrette; I THE ART OF BEING READ; 2 The New Canadian Vortex | Betts; 3 Watson, McLuhan (& Lewis) | Lamberti; 4 Excellent Internationalists | Hammond; II THE ANTENNAE OF THE RACE; 5 Dispatches from the DEW Line | Welch; 6 Wilfred Watson, Playwright | Tiessen; 7 Marshall McLuhan, General Idea, and Me! | Monk; III ART AND ANTI-ENVIRONMENT; 8 Sheila Watson, Wyndham Lewis, and Men without Art | Irvine

9 "His Name Is Felix" | Morra10 Magic, Monstrosity, and "the Mechanization of Death" | Smitka; PROLEPSIS; 11 Marshall McLuhan as Vanishing Mediator | Wershler; Works Cited; Contributors; Index; Other Titles from The University of Alberta Press

Sommario/riassunto

"In 1914, Ezra Pound and Wyndham Lewis--the founders of Vorticism--undertook an unprecedented analysis of the present, its technologies, communication, politics, and architecture. The essays in Counterblasting Canada trace the influence of Vorticism on Marshall



McLuhan and Canadian Modernism. Building on the initial accomplishment of Blast, McLuhan's subsequent Counterblast, and the network of artistic and intellectual relationships that flourished in Canadian Vorticism, the contributors offer groundbreaking examinations of postwar Canadian literary culture, particularly the legacies of Sheila and Wilfred Watson. Intended primarily for scholars of literature and communications, Counterblasting Canada explores a crucial and long-overlooked strand in Canadian cultural and literary history. Contributors: Gregory Betts, Adam Hammond, Dean Irvine, Elena Lamberti, Philip Monk, Linda Morra, Kristine Smitka, Leon Surette, Paul Tiessen, Adam Welch, Darren Wershler."--