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Wyndham Lewis\u2019s kulturkampf \/ David William Lafferty.<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Publisher<\/td>\nOttawa, c2009.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The claim of this study is that the \u201cmaster subject\u201d of Lewis\u2019s literary works was a cultural divide that I refer to as the modern\u00a0kulturkampf<\/em>\u00a0or \u201cculture war\u201d (the English translation of\u00a0kulturkampf<\/em>\u00a0, and now common parlance), and that may be most simply described as the sharp, politicized cultural division between the Old and the New in the modern world. Lewis\u2019s confrontation with the\u00a0kulturkampf<\/em>\u00a0, the parameters of which he was constantly redefining, guided his rhetorical strategies and the construction of his authorial persona, especially in his employment of reactionary ideas and rhetoric. I examine the development of Lewis\u2019s vision of the\u00a0kulturkampf<\/em>\u00a0in his polemical works and in the fiction in which his polemical voice and authorial persona are most apparent, analyzing in loose chronological order the emergence of Lewis\u2019s \u201cpolitics of the intellect\u201d in\u00a0The Art of Being Ruled<\/em>\u00a0(1926) and\u00a0The Lion and the Fox<\/em>\u00a0(1927); his engagement with\u00a0kulturkampf<\/em>\u00a0rhetoric in his critique of T.E. Hulme\u2019s vision of thekulturkampf<\/em>\u00a0, his public feud with the editors of\u00a0transition<\/em>\u00a0, and his analysis of the age war in\u00a0The Old Gang and the New Gang<\/em>\u00a0(1933); his political polemics of the 1930s, with a focus on his contribution to \u201crevolutionary conservative\u201d ideology in\u00a0Count Your Dead: They Are Alive!<\/em>\u00a0(1937); his post-war return to the British\u00a0kulturkampf<\/em>in\u00a0Rotting Hill<\/em>\u00a0(1951); and finally his radical re-evaluation of the dimensions of the\u00a0kulturkampf<\/em>\u00a0in the last two completed books of the unfinished\u00a0Human Age<\/em>\u00a0tetralogy.<\/p>\n

Throughout, I argue that the purpose of Lewis\u2019s engagement with the\u00a0kulturkampf<\/em>\u00a0was threefold. First, it allowed him to refine his politics of the intellect\u2013the practical goal of which was the protection of the intellectual, and the utopian goal of which was to bring the\u00a0kulturkampf\u00a0<\/em>into a new \u201cpolitical equilibrium.\u201d Second, it allowed him to harness the literary and political violence of others as a means of creating confusion and controversy, thus reinforcing his position as the \u201cEnemy.\u201d Third, it functioned as a vehicle for his evangelical impulses, his goal being to expand the political consciousness of the average middle-class Briton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"people-type":[59],"yoast_head":"\nLafferty, David W. - 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