Description
| Product ID: | 9781772120370 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | CA |
| Title: | Counterblasting Canada |
| Subtitle: | Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson |
| Authors: | Author: Gregory Betts, Paul Hjartarson, Kristine Smitka |
| Page Count: | 344 |
| Subjects: | Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Canada, English |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Situating the intellectual inheritance of Canadian vorticists in a multidisciplinary assemblage of authors and artists. In 1914, Wyndham Lewis and Ezra Pound—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 the magazine 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, Paul Hjartarson, Dean Irvine, Elena Lamberti, Philip Monk, Linda M. Morra, Kristine Smitka, Leon Surette, Paul Tiessen, Adam Welch, Darren Wershler. |
| Imprint Name: | University of Alberta Press |
| Publisher Name: | University of Alberta Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-05-09 |