Ezra Pound's Washington Cantos and the struggle for light /
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London ; New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2021.
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| Series: | Historicizing modernism.
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Table of Contents:
- Forward
- Chapter One. The Washington cantos: anagogy, metapolitics and the Warren court. The Washington cantos: Section: Rock-drill de los cantares and thrones ; Metapolitics and politics ; "Four steps to the bughouse" ; The Warren court
- Chapter Two. Obstacles to understanding the Washington cantos Aesopian language and its problems. Pound's reading and the poverty of philology ; Trobar Clus ; Pound's "Late Style" ; The "Cleaners manifesto"
- Chapter Three. Two states' rights fables. John Randolph of Roanoke and Canto 103 ; John Randolph ; Canto 103
- Chapter Four. The Aryanist vortex: Pound's metapolitics and white supremacy. Pound's taxonomy of human types ; "Freedom now or never"
- Chapter Five. Raising Cain: the Aryan origins of civilization. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray's Adam & Cain ; Waddell, Egypt and the Aryan makers of civilization ; Pound's 'Egyptian problem'
- Chapter Six. Sheri Martinelli and the paradise of Venus. ; Ezra Pound: "a great stud ..." ; Trobar Clus
- Chapter Seven. Sheri Martinelli: right wing muse
- Chapter Eight. Apollonius of Tyana
- Chapter Nine. Pound and sovereignty: Canto 97, "nummolary theory" and the Sacred Ratios. "REAL Ideology"
- Chapter Ten. Pound's Agrarian bent: physiocracy against degradation
- Chapter Eleven. The Coke Cantos as an argument for the defense. The Connecticut charter ; Pound and Catherine Drinker Bowen ; Four Acres
- Chapter Twelve. Pound at Colonus: the poet as Oedipus ; Afterword
- Appendix A. A primer of Poundian economics
- Appendix B. "Homage to grandpa" by Sheri Martinelli.
