The limits of sympathetic imagination What is it possible to imagine? Are specific extreme experiences, like war or rape, simply beyond us? Coetzee's fiction helps us think through these issues.

On capitalist realism and ‘Wolf Hall’ Marxist critics have a distinctive (that is, peculiar) perspective on how capitalism operates internally. In searching for aggressive metaphors to describe capitalist realism, they accentuate an alleged glamour, when better models may lie in Tudor England.

Wyndham Lewis and the ‘Laughing Woman’ Wyndham Lewis painted several important pictures of a laughing Kate Lechmere early in his career, probably during 1911. These are crucial early examples of Lewis’s developing Vorticist aesthetic prior to BLAST; however, their history – who owned what, where…

Edward Thomas, empathy, and reciprocity Thomas's poetry may be best understood by considering the concept of reciprocity, rather than resorting to the contentious topic of empathy.

Orwell’s ‘crimestop’ and moral vegetarianism A family owns a house in an idyllic rural location. The house's beauty frequently brings visitors to tears. It is so characteristic of its context that it is used on film sets. The interior has been professionally designed. There is no work to do, with…

Shell Shock and the Grotesque Overuse of the adjective ‘shell-shocked’ is careless; those suffering from shell shock used the grotesque not tropes associated with confusion to communicate their experience.

Lewis's Oct. 1919 lecture for the Arts League 'Modern Tendencies in Art' series, believed lost to us, was given a second (and better) airing at the Leicester Museum in Nov. 1919. #WyndhamLewis

Lewis's Lost 1919 'Cubist Exhibition' Preface. Local newspaper records suggest a previously unknown preface for a 1919 exhibition in Oxford. #WyndhamLewis #modernism https://drjwood.com/2025/06/17/lewiss-lost-1919-cubist-exhibition-preface/

Thomas, the Home Front Imagination, and Reciprocity www.drjwood.com/p/thomas-the...

On Capitalist Realism and 'Wolf Hall' www.drjwood.com/p/on-capital...

On the limits of imagination www.drjwood.com/p/on-the-lim...? #Coetzee #imagination #aesthetics r=2eahdm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false

Wyndham Lewis's 'Laughing Women' #WyndhamLewis #Vorticism www.drjwood.com/p/wyndham-le...