03757nam 2200613 450 991079869080332120231206213326.01-77212-151-71-77212-149-510.1515/9781772121513(CKB)3710000000830721(EBL)4661702(Au-PeEL)EBL4827160(CaPaEBR)ebr11371668(OCoLC)945781927(DE-B1597)662447(DE-B1597)9781772121513(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/vxngkj(MiAaPQ)EBC4827160(EXLCZ)99371000000083072120170425h20162016 uy 0engur|n|---|||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierCounter-blasting Canada Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson /edited by Gregory Betts, Paul Hjartarson, and Kristine SmitkaEdmonton, Alberta :The University of Alberta Press,2016.©20161 online resource (345 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-77212-037-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 | Irvine9 "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"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."--Provided by publisher.Canadian literature20th centuryHistory and criticismVorticismCanadaCanadaIntellectual life20th centuryCanadafastLiterary History/Cultural History.Canadian literatureHistory and criticism.Vorticism810.9/0054Betts Gregory Brian1975-Hjartarson Paul IvarSmitka Kristine1982-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910798690803321Counter-blasting Canada3837926UNINA