The Poetics Of Fascism

Author : Paul A. Morrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0195080858
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Fascism written by Paul A. Morrison and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morrison concludes with a provocative analysis of deconstruction and the work of Paul de Man. Without reducing the political implications of poetry to mere caricature and without slighting the force and fact of literary mediation, The Poetics of Fascism will reshape the discussion of the social dimension of modernism.

Author : Paul Morrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195359755
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Fascism written by Paul Morrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1996-02-29 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morrison examines the legacy of the modernist poetics of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, as it relates to current theoretical orthodoxies, and traces its influence on the current crisis in post-structural literary theory. Morrison reads the politics of post-structural theory in relation to the socio-cultural arguments espoused in the poetry and prose by Pound and Eliot, and reveals a continuity between that theory and high modernism's tendency towards fascism. Without reducing the political implications of poetry to mere caricature and without slighting the force and fact of literary mediation, Morrison has produced a book that will reshape the discussion of the social dimension of modernism. He concludes with a provocative analysis of deconstruction and the work of Paul de Man, and makes a case for a new post-structural theory that can accommodate history.

Author : Nick Selby
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Poetics of Loss in the Cantos of Ezra Pound written by Nick Selby and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how the modernist poetics exemplified in Ezra Pound's epic poem The Cantos are unavoidable bound-in with the ideological forces underpinning his advocacy of fascism. Overall it argues that Pound's reactionary urge to redefine a lost culture, couples with his sense of textual annihilation of a validating poetic centre, is the cultural ground on which his ideal of fascist republic rests.

Author : Alice Yaeger Kaplan
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 145290149X
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reproductions of Banality written by Alice Yaeger Kaplan and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproductions of Banality was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. An established fascist state has never existed in France, and after World War II there was a tendency to blame the Nazi Occupation for the presence of fascists within the country. Yet the memory of fascism within their ranks still haunts French intellectuals, and questions about a French version of fascist ideology have returned to the political forefront again and again in the years since the war. In Reproductions of Banality, Alice Yaegar Kaplan investigates the development of fascist ideology as it was manifested in the culture of prewar and Occupied France. Precisely because it existed only in a "gathering" or formative stage, and never achieved the power that brings with it a bureaucratic state apparatus, French fascism never lost its utopian, communal elements, or its consequent aesthetic appeal. Kaplan weighs this fascist aesthetic and its puzzling power of attraction by looking closely at its material remains: the narratives, slogans, newspapers, and film criticism produced by a group of writers who worked in Paris in the 1930s and early 1940s — their "most real moment." These writers include Pierre Drieu la Rochelle, Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Lucien Rebatat, Robert Brasillach, and Maurice Bardeche, as well as two precursors of French fascism, Georges Sorel and the Italian futurist F.T. Marinetti, who made of the airplane an industrial carrier of sexual fantasies and a prime mover in the transit from futurism to fascism. Kaplan's work is grounded in the major Marxist and psychoanalytic theories of fascism and in concepts of banality and mechanical reproduction that draw upon Walter Benjamin. Emphasizing the role played by the new technologies of sight and sound, she is able to suggest the nature of the long-repressed cultural and political climate that produced French fascism, and to show—by implication — that the mass marketing of ideology in democratic states bears a family resemblance to the fascist mode of an earlier time.

Author : Tim Redman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521373050
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism written by Tim Redman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1991-03-29 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating account of Ezra Pound and Italian Fascism allows the reader to understand the causes and results of Pound's ideology and actions.

Author : Toby Martinez de las Rivas
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 057133380X
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Black Sun written by Toby Martinez de las Rivas and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2018-01-30 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toby Martinez de las Rivas is regarded as one of the most distinctive voices to have emerged in recent times; to some, a modern day William Blake. The Guardian described Terror, his first book, as 'visionary' and 'exciting', the New Statesman as 'remarkable', and all combined to praise it's brave and lucid intensity. Black Sun is a sequel of poise and clarity that is, if anything, more open and accessible than its predecessor. Beginning where Terror left off, it pursues that book's fascination with history and with theology, with preservation and redemption.

Author : David Carroll
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691223033
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book French Literary Fascism written by David Carroll and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to provide a sustained critical analysis of the literary-aesthetic dimension of French fascism--the peculiarly French form of what Walter Benjamin called the fascist "aestheticizing of politics." Focusing first on three important extremist nationalist writers at the turn of the century and then on five of the most visible fascist intellectuals in France in the 1930s, David Carroll shows how both traditional and modern concepts of art figure in the elaboration of fascist ideology--and in the presentation of fascism as an art of the political. Carroll is concerned with the internal relations of fascism and literature--how literary fascists conceived of politics as a technique for fashioning a unified people and transforming the disparate elements of society into an organic, totalized work of art. He explores the logic of such aestheticizing, as well as the assumptions about art, literature, and culture at the basis of both the aesthetics and politics of French literary fascists. His book reveals how not only classical humanism but also modern aesthetics that defend the autonomy and integrity of literature became models for xenophobic forms of nationalism and extreme "cultural" forms of anti-Semitism. A cogent analysis of the ideological function of literature and culture in fascism, this work helps us see the ramifications of thinking of literature or art as the truth or essence of politics.

Author : Andrew Hewitt
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804726979
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fascist Modernism written by Andrew Hewitt and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using the literary work of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the founder of the Italian Futurist movement and an early associate of Mussolini, the author explores the point of contact between a "progressive" aesthetic practice and a "reactionary" political ideology.

Author : Sean Mark
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303091948X
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pound and Pasolini written by Sean Mark and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-17 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1967, Pier Paolo Pasolini travelled to Venice to interview Ezra Pound for broadcast on national television. One a lifelong Marxist, the other a former propagandist for the Fascist regime, their encounter was billed as a clash of opposites. But what do these poets share? And what can they tell us about the poetics and politics of the twentieth century? This book reads one by way of the other, aligning their engagement with different temporalities and traditions, polities and geographies, languages and forms, evoked as utopian alternatives to the cultural and political crises of capitalist modernity. Part literary history, part comparative study, it offers a new and provocative perspective on these poets and the critical debates around them – in particular, on Pound’s Italian years and Pasolini’s use of Pound in his work. Their connection helps to understand the implications and legacies of their work today.

Author : Catherine E. Paul
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781384053
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fascist Directive written by Catherine E. Paul and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By bringing Italian primary sources and approaches to the cultural project of Mussolini's regime to bear on Ezra Pound's prose work (including unpublished material from the Pound Papers and untranslated periodical contributions), this work shows how Pound's modernism changed as a result of involvement in Italian politics and culture.