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....