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

• Pubblicazione: Edmonton, Alberta : , : The University of Alberta Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (345 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.9/0054
• Soggetto topico: Canadian literature - 20th century - History and criticism; Vorticism - Canada
• Soggetto geografico: Canada Intellectual life 20th century; Canada
• Soggetto non controllato: Literary History/Cultural History
• Persona (resp. second.): BettsGregory Brian <1975->; HjartarsonPaul Ivar; SmitkaKristine <1982->
• 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."--
• Titolo autorizzato: Counter-blasting Canada
• ISBN: 1-77212-151-7; 1-77212-149-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910798690803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II