The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work

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Introduction Part One PHILOSOPHY, POLITICS, SOCIETY from BLAST 2 A Super-Krupp —or War’s End Letters to Ezra Pound The Code of a Herdsman from BLASTING AND BOMBARDIERING First Meeting with James Joyce An ‘Age Group’ Meets Itself Our Lady of the Sleeping Cars from THE ART OF BEING RULED ‘Bolshevism and the West’ Violence and ‘Kindliness’: Mr Bernard Shaw and Mr Bertrand Russell Vegetarianism and Capital Punishment The Contemporary Man ‘Expresses His Personality’ The Matrnarchate and Feminine Ascendency The Piecemealing of the Personality The Physiological Norm and the ‘Vicious’ The Intolerant Tradition of the Anglo-Saxon The Taboo on Generic Terms, and the Abstract Creature of Democracy ‘Call Yourself a Man!’ The Great Development of Associational Life How Much Truth Does a Man Require? Different Magics The Politics of the Intellect from THE LION AND THE FOX Machiavelli in Elizabethan Drama Othello as the Typical Colossus Race and the Person from PALEFACE A Final Proposal: A Model ‘Melting-Pot’ from THE JEWS: ARE THEY HUMAN? A New Deal for the Jew from THE HITLER CULT Sovereign-Nationhood from AMERICA AND COSMIC MAN The Case Against Roots Cosmic Society and Cosmic Man Part Two ART AND LITERATURE from THE CALIPH'S DESIGN The Bull Sounds The Politician’s Apathy How the Fact ot Style Obstructs Where the Painter Would Benefit The Public Chosen Archttecture Child Art and the Naif Machinery and Lions The Artist’s Luck After Abstract Art from THE DEMON OF PROGRESS IN THE ARTS The Cause of the Heterogeneity in the Fine Arts in Our Time Amateur Artists Those who are Accessible to an Extremist Glamour There 1s a Limit, beyond which there is Nothing The Ability to See the Limit “The Unknown Political Prisoner’ and After The ‘Progressive’ Slave from TIME AND WESTERN MAN An Analysis ot the Mind of James Joyce from MEN WITHOUT ART Emest Hemingway: The ‘Dumb Ox’ The Greatest Satire 1s Non-Moral Conclusion from THE WRITER AND THE ABSOLUTE Twentieth Century Nihilism Part Three IMAGINATIVE WRITING from THE WILD BODY Bestre from TARR Part I, Chapter 2 Part VII, Chapter 2 from CHILDERMASS from THE APES OF GOD The Split-Man from SNOOTY BARONET The Hatter’s Automaton from THE REVENGE FOR LOVE from Chapter 2, Part VI from Chapter 8, Part VII The Sea-Mists of the Winter from SELF CONDEMNED Twenty-five Feet by Twelve from THE HUMAN AGE Infernal Preliminary List of Works Further Reading