Doom of Youth
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"Marshall McLuhan's interest in the critical study of popular culture was influenced by the 1933 book Culture and Environment by F. R. Leavis (with Denys Thompson) and Wyndham Lewis' 1932 book Doom of Youth, which uses similar exhibits." --Sholem Stein |
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Doom of Youth (1932) is a collection of essays by Wyndham Lewis.
- "As early as September 1927 Lewis had been planning Giovanezza, “notes towards a philosophi- cal study of ‘Youth Movements’ respectively in Italy, France, Germany and Soviet Russia” 1 which he planned to publish in The Enemy. Other business intervened, and it was only in 1928 that he appears to have begun collecting material for the book, finally issued as The Doom of Youth in 1932. 2 In fact the majority of the dated newspaper clippings used in the study come from two periods, that between 17 March to 20 November 1929, and from 1 May 1930 to 10 April 1931, facts which can be easily explained in the light of Lewis’s other activities. The youth book was set aside in 1927 to make way for the completion of the Childermass , and subsequent to that Lewis was occupied with the revisions to Tarr, and then with a detailed reply to Parisian criticism of his revolutionary credentials, which, as “The Diabolical Principle” occupied the third number of the Enemy." [1]
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