Lewis, Wyndham - Andrea Freud Lowenstein (essay date 1993)
Andrea Freud Lowenstein (essay date 1993)
SOURCE: “The Molten Column Within: Wyndham Lewis,” in Loathsome Jews and Engulfing Women: Metaphors of Projection in the Works of Wyndham Lewis, Charles Williams, and Graham Greene, New York University Press, 1993, pp. 119-87.
[In the following excerpt, Lowenstein presents a detailed analysis of Lewis's body of work to identify Lewis as a misogynist, nazi, and homophobe.]
INTRODUCTION: WHY STUDY WYNDHAM LEWIS
One could argue that to begin the main body of this book with an indepth examination of the life and work of self-proclaimed “Enemy” Wyndham Lewis hardly promises a balanced approach. As Fredric Jameson puts it in his Fables of Aggression:
The polemic hostility to feminism, the uglier misogynist fantasies embedded in his narratives, the obsessive phobia against homosexuals, the most extreme restatements of grotesque traditional myths and...
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