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

  • Andrea Rinaldi University of Bergen
  • Matthew Feldman Teesside University
Keywords: Ezra Pound, Modernism, Fascism

Abstract

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, informs and coalesces into the latter.

Author Biographies

Andrea Rinaldi, University of Bergen

Andrea Rinaldi is a PhD candidate and fellow on the ‘Modernism and Christianity Project’ at the University of Bergen with a thesis on "Ezra Pound, Religion and Italian Fascism 1924-1945". He published "Economía Y Cultura En El Fascismo Radical De Ezra Pound" (in Rebeldes Y Reaccionarios: Intelectuales, Fascismo Y Derecha Radical En Europa. Ed. Ferrán Gallego and Francisco Morente. Barcelona: El Viejo Topo, 2011) and forthcoming “‘Till Armageddon, No Shalam, No Shalom.” Ezra Pound and the Consecration of Politics in the Italian Press During WWII’ (in Modernism, Christianity, and Apocalypse. Ed. Erik Tonning, Matthew Feldman and David Addyman. Leiden: Brill).

Matthew Feldman, Teesside University

Matthew Feldman is Professor in the History of Modern Ideas at Teesside University, where he also co-directs the Centre for Fascist, Anti-fascist and Post-fascist Studies. He is currently a Visiting Professor at Richmond University, UK; a Senior Fellow with the ‘Modernism and Christianity’ research project at the University of Bergen, Norway; and a Senior Researcher at the RNM Group at the University of Northampton, UK. With Professor Erik Tonning, he edits Bloomsbury’s Academic's Modernist Archives and Historicizing Modernism book series, and is the (co-)editor of a dozen books on subjects ranging from apocalypticism, right-wing extremism and various aspects of modernism. His most recent monograph is Ezra Pound’s Fascist Propaganda, 1935-1945 (Palgrave, 2013). 

Published
2015-01-31
How to Cite
Rinaldi, A., & Feldman, M. (2015). ‘Penny-wise…’: Ezra Pound’s Posthumous Legacy to Fascism. Sanglap: Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry, 1(2), 27-70. Retrieved from http://sanglap-journal.in/index.php/sanglap/article/view/68
Issue
Vol 1 No 2 (2015): Democracy, Resistance, and the Practice of Literature
Section
Articles

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