Allan Pero

Bio

Allan Pero is Associate Professor of English and Writing Studies at the University of Western Ontario. He is also Editor-in-Chief of English Studies in Canada. He is co-editor of and contributor to The Many Façades of Edith Sitwell (2017).  His most recent publications include articles on Wyndham Lewis, Katherine Mansfield, Blanchot and Lacan, Lacan and the Posthuman, Ford Madox Ford, Brigid Brophy, and Lynda Barry. He has chapters forthcoming on W. H. Auden and Denton Welch. He is currently working on a critical edition of Wyndham Lewis' The Childermass for Oxford University Press, and a book-length project on Camp and Modernism.

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“What is a ruin but Time easing itself of endurance? Corruption is the Age of Time. It is the body and the blood of ecstasy, religion and love.” Djuna Barnes, Nightwood “The carnival was petering out in a gloomy banality. Change was imminent in every direction. Why not make a clean sweep of the old life and, escaping to some strange new existence, create a fresh illusion of pleasure?” Compton Mackenzie, Carnival Camp has a rather curious relationship to centenaries and to commemoration. It is...