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Pound in Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to Anti-Semitism
Leon Surette
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paperback. Explains Pound's early non anti-Semitic beliefs and why his views changed to anti-Semitic. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 488.
Pound in Purgatory, available now in paperback, overturns all previous explanations of Ezra Pound's anti-Semitism by uncovering its roots in economic and conspiracy theory. Leon Surette demonstrates that, contrary to popular opinion, Pound was not a life-long anti-Semite and consistently ignored or resisted anti-Semitic comments from his correspondents until after 1931.
From 1931 to 1945 Pound's poetry took a back seat to his activities as an economic reformer and propagandist for the corporate state. Pound believed he had a simple and practical solution for the economic woes of the world brought on by the Great Depression, and ... Read more
Pound in Purgatory, available now in paperback, overturns all previous explanations of Ezra Pound's anti-Semitism by uncovering its roots in economic and conspiracy theory. Leon Surette demonstrates that, contrary to popular opinion, Pound was not a life-long anti-Semite and consistently ignored or resisted anti-Semitic comments from his correspondents until after 1931.
From 1931 to 1945 Pound's poetry took a back seat to his activities as an economic reformer and propagandist for the corporate state. Pound believed he had a simple and practical solution for the economic woes of the world brought on by the Great Depression, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252071591
SKU
V9780252071591
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Reviews for Pound in Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to Anti-Semitism
"With great learning and his customary acerbic rigor Surette digests Pound's reading, maps his influences, and shows how the poet lost himself in tangles of economic theory
a confusion he resolved by positing a cosmic racial conspiracy. This is intellectual history at its best." Alec Marsh, author of Money and Modernity: Pound, Williams, and the Spirit of Jefferson
a confusion he resolved by positing a cosmic racial conspiracy. This is intellectual history at its best." Alec Marsh, author of Money and Modernity: Pound, Williams, and the Spirit of Jefferson