The Fictions of James Joyce and Wyndham Leis Monsters of Nature and Design [Paperback]

Relationship between the work of Joyce and Lewis, expressed through similar themes and structures.The literary relationship of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis, previously described in merely biographical terms, is here extended to textual affiliations, including thematic structures of opposition, reconciliation, and dialectic. The work of both writers is illuminated, and the book offers insight into the politics and aesthetics of modernism.The literary relationship of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis, previously described in merely biographical terms, is here extended to textual affiliations, including thematic structures of opposition, reconciliation, and dialectic. The work of both writers is illuminated, and the book offers insight into the politics and aesthetics of modernism.The literary relationship of James Joyce and Wyndham Lewis has been described in merely biographical terms; but here Scott W. Klein reveals hitherto unperceived textual affiliations between the two authors. The seeing eye and the world, the creating mind and fiction, and the processes of history appear in the work of both Joyce and Lewis as related thematic structures of opposition, reconciliation, and dialectic. Professor Klein's study adds to our understanding of Joyce and Lewis, and revises current perceptions of modernism.Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction: opposition and representation; 1. The tell-tale Eye; 2. The mirror and the razor; 3. The cracked looking-glass of the master; 4. Minds of the anti-collaborators; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index. ...a well-balanced reading of both authors....the most thorough reading of the Joyce-Lewis intertext to date....His command of the major texts of both Joyce and Lewis is impressive and leads to the discovery of a number of heretofore unremarked parallels....After reading Klein, one begins to perceive the profound affinities between these two writers. One begins to understand just how crucial Lewis was to Joyce in the offils+