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Blasting the bombardier: another look at Lewis, Joyce, and Woolf. (Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf)

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From: Twentieth Century Literature
Date: 19940922
Author:Anspaugh, Kelly

Bonnie Kim Smith depiction of Wyndham Lewis as the male equivalent of the feminist Virginia Woolf and James Joyce as sympathetic to the feminist cause is riddled with inaccuracy. The critic has correctly analyzed the three writers' distinctive styles but he has done Lewis an injustice by portraying him as the antithesis of everything that feminists have been fighting for. To Smith, Lewis was a child hater and a friendless man.

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 ...

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