Fascist directive : Ezra Pound and Italian cultural nationalism / Catherine E. Paul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paul, Catherine E., 1971- author.

Series:

Ezra Pound Center for Literature series

The Ezra Pound Center for Literature book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972.

Pound, Ezra.

Physical Description:

xvi, 346 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Clemson, South Carolina : Clemson University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Fascist Directive reveals changes in Ezra Pound's prose writing resulting from his excitement over Mussolini's use of Italian cultural heritage to build and promote the modern Fascist state. Drawing on unpublished archival material and untranslated periodical contributions, Catherine E. Paul delves into the vexing work of perhaps the most famous, certainly the most notorious, American in Italy in the 1930s and 1940s, providing fresh understanding of Fascist deployment of art, architecture, blockbuster exhibitions, music, archaeological projects, urban design, and literature. Pound's prose writings of this period cement a "directive" approach-declaiming his views with an authority that shuts down disagreement. Reading such important prose works as Jefferson and/or Mussolini and Guide to Kulchur, as well as the surprisingly propagandists aspects of the Pisan Cantos in the context of Pound's profound investment in Italian Fascist cultural nationalism, Fascist Directive reveals the importance of this approach to his larger artistic mission. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Italian Cultural Nationalism 19

2 Renaissance Revisited: Pound's Foray into Italian Cultural Nationalism 47

3 The Bundle and the Pickax: Fascist Cultural Projects 83

4 Ezra Pound and/or the Fascist Gerarchia 141

5 The Fascist Cultural Nationalism of the Vivaldi Revival 159

6 Italian Fascist Exhibitions and Pound's Fascist Directive 199

7 Propaganda Art: Can a Poet be a Traitor? 237.

ISBN:

9781942954057

1942954050

OCLC:

946463197

Publisher Number:

99968664372