By Ann L. Ardis
Ann Ardis questions generally held perspectives of radical modernism on the flip of the 20 th century. She depicts the "men of 1914," (as Wyndham Lewis known as the coterie of writers based round Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, and James Joyce) as just one between a couple of teams rationale on redefining the cultural targets of British literature on the flip of the 20 th century. concurrently, Ardis reclaims key examples of non-modernist aesthetic attempt linked to British socialism and feminism of the interval.
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