刘易斯的文化批评思想在加拿大的影响——评《反轰炸加拿大：马歇尔·麦克卢汉、温德姆·刘易斯、威尔弗雷德·沃特森和希拉·沃特森》

The Influence of Wyndham Lewis’s Cultural Criticism in Canada: A Review of Counter-Blasting Canada: Marshall McLuhan, Wyndham Lewis, Wilfred Watson and Sheila Watson

刘易斯的作品和文化批评思想对加拿大现代主义文学、文艺乃至文化的发展,发挥了无人能比的影响。他所影响和激发的几代加拿大文学家、艺术家和文化批评家,成为加拿大现代主义的主力军。《反轰炸加拿大》通过挖掘近年对外公开的档案资料,包括未出版的书信、日记、手稿等,展现了刘易斯、麦克卢汉、希拉·沃特森和威尔弗雷德·沃特森这四位加拿大文学文化大师之间有趣而富有成效的学术互动,勾勒出一部现代主义文学、艺术和文化的传承简史。然而,加拿大学者意欲构建独立的文化身份,似乎仍任重道远。

Wyndham Lewis's works and cultural criticism have an unmatchable influence upon the development of Canadian modernist literature,arts and culture.Generations of Canadian writers,artists and cultural critics he inspired and impacted have now become the backbone of Canadian modernism.Digging up from archives newly open to the public,including unpublished letters,journals and manuscripts,etc.,Counter-Blasting Canada:Marshall MeLuhan,Wyndham Lewis,Wilfred Watson and Sheila Watson demonstrates interesting and fruitful intellectual interactions among Wyndham Lewis,Marshall McLuhan,Wilfred Watson and Sheila Watson,producing a simplified history of inheritance in the field of modernist literature,arts and culture.However,it still seems to be a long-term and arduous task for Canadian academics to form their own independent cultural identity.