Super Schoolmaster: Ezra Pound as Teacher, Then and Now PDF
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SUPER SCHOOLMASTER SUPER SCHOOLMASTER EZRA POUND AS TEACHER, THEN AND NOW Robert Scholes and David Ben-Merre Cover image from Ezra Pound’s “Announcements” from “The Egoist,” November 1914. Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 2021 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission. No part of this book may be stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means including electronic, electrostatic, magnetic tape, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission in writing of the publisher. For information, contact State University of New York Press, Albany, NY www.sunypress.edu Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Scholes, Robert, author. | Ben-Merre, David, author. Title: Super schoolmaster : Ezra Pound as teacher, then and now. / Robert Scholes, author | David Ben-Merre, author. Description: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2021] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: ISBN 9781438481470 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781438481487 (ebook) Further information is available at the Library of Congress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 For Jo Ann (of course) Contents Acknowledgments ix Preface: Back to Basics xi Robert Scholes Preface: In a Station xvii David Ben-Merre Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Pounding the Academy: The Poet as Student and Teacher 9 Chapter 2 The Critic as Teacher: Pound’s “New Method” in Scholarship 33 Chapter 3 How to Read Comparatively 61 Chapter 4 Periodical Studies 87 Chapter 5 The Instructor as Propagandist 115 Afterword: Schools of Fish 137 David Ben-Merre Notes 149 Works Cited 181 Index 189 vii Acknowledgments We are tremendously grateful to Carl Klaus and Sean Latham for their encouragement at all stages of this project, and Clifford Wulfman for his generosity in allowing us to reimagine and amplify a chapter from his and Bob’s groundbreaking Modernism in the Magazines (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010). We offer a very special thanks to our editor Rebecca Colesworthy, who was also a student of Bob’s. Sadly, Bob passed away before she became involved in this project, but he would have been so delighted by this serendipitous turn and ever so thankful—as am I—for her constant help and unrelenting stewardship. To the entire community of Bob’s students (from both inside and outside the classroom) and to all those who continually think and rethink the possibilities of modernism— thank you. ix
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