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Book SynopsisBLAST at 100 makes an original contribution to the understanding of a major modernist magazine. Providing new critical readings that consider the magazine’s influence within contexts that have not been acknowledged before – in the development of Irish and Spanish literature and culture in the twentieth century, for example, as well as in the areas of cultural studies, performance studies and the scholarship of teaching and learning – BLAST at 100 reconsiders the magazine’s complex legacy. In addition to situating the magazine in new and often unexpected contexts, BLAST at 100 also offers important new insights into the work of some of its most significant contributors, including Wyndham Lewis, Ezra Pound, and Rebecca West. Contributors are: Philip Coleman, Simon Cutts, Andrzej Gąsiorek, Angela Griffith, Nicholas E. Johnson, Kathryn Laing, Christopher Lewis, J.C.C. Mays, Kathryn Milligan, Yolanda Morató, Nathan O’Donnell, Alex Runchman, Colm Summers, Tom Walker
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Contributors 1 Introduction: ‘Storm from the North’ Nathan O’donnell and Philip Coleman Part 1: Textual and Contextual Re-Readings 2 BLAST Then and Now: With Expletive of Whirlwind Andrzej Gąsiorek 3 Soillure, Bomb Blasts, and Volcanic Chaos: Reading the Poetry of Blast Alex Runchman 4 Am I a Vorticist ?: Re-Reading Rebecca West’s Indissoluble Matrimony and BLAST Kathryn Laing 5 BLAST and the Canon: Exploring Lewis’s ‘A Review of Contemporary Art’ Kathryn Milligan Part 2: Blast and Ireland 6 Our More Profound Pre-Raphaelitism: W.B. Yeats, Aestheticism and BLAST Tom Walker 7 Springs of Creation: BLAST and Irish Art Nathan O’donnell 8 Visualising To-morrow: An Irish Modernist Periodical Angela Griffith Part 3: Enemy of the Stars Reconsidered 9 Beyond Nietzsche: Savage Worship in Enemy of the Stars Christopher Lewis 10 Enemy of the Stars in Performance Nicholas E. Johnson and Colm Summers Part 4: Critical and Creative Legacies 11 Lewis-Pound-Mcluhan, BLAST and COUNTERBLAST: Connections, Comparisons, and Some Personal Reflections J.C.C. Mays 12 Recreating BLAST in Spanish: Composition, Editing, Translation, and Annotation Yolanda Morató 13 BLAST in the Classroom Philip Coleman 14 The Collective Work in the Critical Mode: Afterword Simon Cutts Index
