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Counterblasting Canada: Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson

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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 ... Read more

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Publisher

University of Alberta Press

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2016

Condition

New

Number of Pages

344

Place of Publication

Alberta, Canada

ISBN

9781772120370

SKU

V9781772120370

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99-2

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Gregory Betts is the Chancellor's Chair for Research Excellence at Brock University, the Director of Canadian Studies, and an Associate Professor in English. He is the author of Avant-Garde Canadian Literature: The Early Manifestations (UTP 2013). Paul Hjartarson is Professor Emeritus in English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. His most recent book, co-authored with S.C. Neuman ... Read moreand EMiC UA, is The Thinking Heart: The Literary Archive of Wilfred Watson (UAP 2014). Kristine Smitka teaches in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. To better understand the relationship between print and digital forms of publishing, her research focuses on the paperback book as a medium that defies the old vs. new media binary. Leon Surette has taught at the UBC (1962-4), the U. of Guelph (1966-70); Queen's University, Kingston, Ont. (Visiting 1979-80), and Western until mandatory retirement in July 2004. He has published seven books, five currently available. The latest is Art in the Age of the Machine. Self-published Ebook, Amazon 2013. Elena Lamberti teaches North American Literature and Media Studies at the University of Bologna, Italy. Her areas of research include: Anglo-American Modernism, Literature and Technology, Cultural Memory, War Literature. Her volume Marshall McLuhan's Mosaic. Probing the Literary Origins of Media Studies (U of Toronto, Press) was a finalist for the 2013 Canada Prizes. Adam Hammond is Assistant Professor in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at San Diego State University, where his work focuses on British Modernism and Digital Humanities. He is author of Literature in the Digital Age: A Critical Introduction (Cambridge UP, 2015) and co-author of Modernism: Keywords (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014). Adam Welch is an Associate Curator, Canadian Art at the National Gallery of Canada. He is currently working toward his doctorate in Art History at the University of Toronto, with a dissertation entitled 'Borderline Research': Art between Canada and the United States, 1965-1975. Paul Tiessen is professor emeritus, English and Film Studies, Wilfrid Laurier University. He has published essays on Wyndham Lewis, Sheila Watson, Marshall McLuhan, and Wilfred Watson. Currently he is an editorial collaborator on a trilogy of novels by Malcolm Lowry, while also working on a study of McLuhan and spectatorship. Philip Monk is Director of the Art Gallery of York University in Toronto. He has written eleven books, the most recent being Glamour is Theft: A User's Guide to General Idea (2102) and Is Toronto Burning? (2015). As well, he has written dozens of catalogues on international and Canadian artists. Dean Irvine is an associate professor in the Department of English at Dalhousie University. Author and editor of books on Canadian modernism, he is also the director of Editing Modernism in Canada, Agile Humanities Agency, and the University of Ottawa Press's Canadian Literature Collection. Dr. Linda Morra is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at Bishop's University. Her publications include Unarrested Archives: Case Studies in Twentieth-Century Authorship (2014), a co-edited collection of essays, Basements and Attics, Closets and Cyberspace: Explorations in Canadian Women's Archives (2012), and an edition of Jane Rule's memoir, Taking My Life (2011). Darren Wershler is the Concordia University Research Chair in Media and Contemporary Literature and the co-founder of the Concordia Media History Research Centre. He conducts most of his research with the MHRC and the Technoculture, Art and Games group. Darren is the author or co-author of 12 books. Show Less

Reviews for Counterblasting Canada: Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson, and Sheila Watson

Reading Counterblasting Canada one has the impression that this quartet-Lewis, McLuhan, and Wilfred and Sheila Watson-and their thinking about culture touched just about every discipline and genre available in the mid to late twentieth century... Finally, then, these collections not only open up new critical conversations about Watson and others, they remind us that our provocative predecessors are also mentors ... Read more

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