‘Penny-wise…’: Ezra Pound’s Posthumous Legacy to Fascism

The article traces the history of Ezra Pound’s engagement with Fascist politics and its contemporary influence on the far-right in America, Britain and Italy.  It seeks to explore a political legacy of Pound’s, which is sometimes strangely at odds with his poetic legacy but on other occasions, infor...

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Main Authors: Matthew Feldman, Andrea Rinaldi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Boibhashik 2015-01-01
Series:Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry
Online Access:http://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/22
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