Bibliograph

Counter-blasting Canada, Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson

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Counter-blasting Canada, Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Counter-blasting Canada

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Sub title

Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson

Summary

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

Target audience

adult

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Counterblasting Canada

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