Screen LibraryJohn Kasper and Ezra Pound : saving the republic /
John Kasper was a militant far-right activist who first came to prominence with his violent campaigns against desegregation in the Civil Rights era. Ezra Pound was the seminal figure in Anglo-American modernist literature and one of the most important poets of the 20th century. This is the first boo...
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Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Historicizing modernism
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| Summary: |
John Kasper was a militant far-right activist who first came to prominence with his violent campaigns against desegregation in the Civil Rights era. Ezra Pound was the seminal figure in Anglo-American modernist literature and one of the most important poets of the 20th century. This is the first book to comprehensively explore the extensive correspondence - lasting over a decade and numbering hundreds of letters - between the two men. - Provided by publisher. |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 301 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-274) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781472508867 1472508866 1350028401 9781350028401 |
| Index Number: | PS3531 |
| CLC: | K837.125.6 |
| Call Number: | K837.125.6/P876M-1 |
| Contents: | John Kasper and Ezra Pound: The Poetics of American Extremism -- Ezra Pound as a "Southern" Writer: Race, Reconstruction, and the Fate of the Republic -- Kasper's Mission (Life and Contacts) -- The "Make it New" Bookshop -- Kasper in Right-Wing Bohemia, "The English Institute," and Frobenius -- Agassiz, Evolution, and Eugenics -- The Brown Decisions: Kasper Transformed from Neo-Nazi to Neo-Confederate -- The Move to Georgetown -- Horton, Del Valle, and the "Thomas Hart Benton Award" -- Admiral Crommelin, The Alabama Campaign, and Canto 105 -- Summer 1956: The Seaboard White Citizens' Council, Virginians on Guard! and Charlottesville -- Pound and White Supremacy: His Taxonomy of Human Types, "Diseases of Thought," and Jack Stafford -- Kasper in Clinton Tennessee: 1956 -- Kasper Exposed -- "Segregation or Death" and the Battle of Nashville -- The Wheat in Our Bread Party and David Wang -- Kasper: "A General Pattern of Organized Terrorism." |