{"product_id":"near-miss-ernest-b-gilman-9780820436814","title":"Near Miss: A Study of Wyndham Lewis (1909-1930)","description":"The pictorial and literary works of Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957) are among the great Modernist achievements. From 1918 to 1926 Lewis wrote an unusually large work to be called \u003ci\u003eThe Man of the World\u003c\/i\u003e. Expediency and the vagaries of the trade forced this intended omnibus volume to be published seriatim, under broad, canny titles: \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Being Ruled\u003c\/i\u003e (1926), \u003ci\u003eThe Lion and the Fox\u003c\/i\u003e (1927), and \u003ci\u003eTime and Western Man\u003c\/i\u003e (1927). A few fictional breakthroughs brought the decade to a close: in 1928. Lewis published both \u003ci\u003eThe Childermass\u003c\/i\u003e and a revised version of \u003ci\u003eTarr\u003c\/i\u003e, and in 1930 a complex \u003ci\u003eroman à clef, The Apes of God\u003c\/i\u003e. The subject of this book, this difficult corpus is ruled by a negative reading of the Horatian injunction that poetry emulate painting; by a Nietzschean description of literature as the domain of a vexing 'blind ear' whose performative inception is a function of exuberance; by a deliberate perspectivism; by a remarkable political prescience (in the 1920s Lewis identified feminism and homosexuality as the two dominant political issues of the century, and exposed a rationale for this double emergence); and by a series of unevenly controlled self-revelations, epitomized in Lewis's characterization of Arghol, a crucial elective persona, as  herculean Venus.  Inherent to any male quest-romance, the latter description condenses Modernism's nuclear, self-endearing plot.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ernest B. Gilman,Antonio M. Feijo,Herman Prins Saloman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 082043681X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820436814\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Ernest B. Gilman","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48483718299903,"sku":"9780820436814","price":62.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_46835c53-f51e-49f0-852d-2855046e9d37.jpg?v=1778040205","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/near-miss-ernest-b-gilman-9780820436814","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}