Lewis, Wyndham - Kelly Anspaugh (essay date 1994)
Kelly Anspaugh (essay date 1994)
SOURCE: “Blasting the Bombardier: Another Look at Lewis, Joyce, and Woolf,” in Twentieth Century Literature, Vol. 40, No. 3, Fall, 1994, pp. 365-78.
[In the following excerpt, Anspaugh examines Lewis's critical reaction to the writings of Virgina Woolf and James Joyce.]
It has been with considerable shaking in my shoes … that I have taken the cow by the horns in this chapter.
(Wyndham Lewis, Men Without Art 140)
In her essay “Jellyfish and Treacle: Lewis, Joyce, Gender and Modernism,” Bonnie Kime Scott—leader of what she herself terms “the current wave of Joyce feminist criticism” (169)—offers an analysis of two modernisms: a “male modernism,” as she puts it, embodied in the person and works of Wyndham Lewis, and a female modernism, best represented by Virginia Woolf. “I hope to demonstrate,” Scott says,
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