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Terrorism and Modern Literature This page intentionally left blank Terrorism and Modern Literature, from Joseph Conrad to Ciaran Carson ALEX HOUEN 1 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide in Oxford New York Auckland Bangkok Buenos Aires Cape Town Chennai Dar es Salaam Delhi Hong Kong Istanbul Karachi Kolkata Kuala Lumpur Madrid Melbourne Mexico City Mumbai Nairobi São Paulo Shanghai Singapore Taipei Tokyo Toronto Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries Published in the United States by Oxford University Press Inc., New York © Alex Houen The moral rights of the author have been asserted Database right Oxford University Press (maker) First published All rights reserved. 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International Ltd, Padstow, Cornwall For my father, M, and my sister, M-C This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements T as a Ph.D., and I am particularly grateful to Gillian Beer for her support and careful supervision of the thesis. I am also indebted to a number of other individuals: Bruce Gardiner, for inspiring me to begin the project in the first place; Keith Carabine, for discussions on Conrad; Rod Mengham, Trudi Tate, and Patricia Waugh, for keeping me on track with meticulous criticism of the var- ious drafts; Julian Murphet, for good arguments about theory; Geoff Gilbert (my Paul Weller of modernism), for the talks and talks; Margaret Scanlan, for opening up new literary lines of inquiry into terrorism; and Matt Campbell, for edifying insights into Northern Irish poetry and politics. Special thanks are due to the students of my ‘Terrorism and Modern Literature’ course who have consistently opened my eyes to new possibilities of interpretation. I have also ben- efited greatly from the editorial care offered by Sophie Goldsworthy, Sarah Hyland, and Frances Whistler in seeing the book through its final stages of preparation. Last and least, I should like to pay tribute to Boots earplugs for providing me with a silence I could always trust. Part of Chapter first appeared as ‘The Secret Agent: Anarchism and the Thermodynamics of Law’ in ELH: (). A shorter version of Chapter first appeared as ‘Walter Abish: Plotting a Terrorism of Postmodernist Fiction’, in the MHRA’s Modern Language Review, Year- book of English Studies(). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the editors for permission to reprint the material here. I am also grateful to the following for granting permission to reprint material: Excerpts from ‘Enemy of the Stars’ and ‘To Suffragettes’ Copy- right © by the Estate of Mrs G. A. Wyndham Lewis by permis- sion of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust. Reprinted from Blast with the permission of Black Sparrow Press. Excerpts from ‘The Crowd Master’ Copyright © by the Es- tate of Mrs G. A. Wyndham Lewis by permission of the Wyndham Lewis Memorial Trust. Reprinted from Blast with the permission of Black Sparrow Press. viii Lines from Ezra Pound, The Cantos of Ezra Pound Copyright © , , , , , , , , , and by Ezra Pound. Reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber and New Directions Publishing Corp. Letters of John Kasper to Ezra Pound reprinted by permission from the Lilly Library at Indiana University, Bloomington, and the Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. Excerpts from How German Is ItCopyright © , by Walter Abish, reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. and Pollinger Ltd. Lines from ‘Once Alien Here’ © by John Hewitt, reprinted by kind permission of The Blackstaff Press. Lines from Tom Paulin, ‘Desertmartin’ from The Liberty Tree © , reprinted by kind permission of the author and Faber & Faber. Lines from Ciaran Carson, Belfast Confetti© , reprinted by kind permission of the author, The Gallery Press, and Wakeforest University Press. Every effort has been made to clear the necessary permissions. Any ommissions will be rectified in future reprints. Contents INTRODUCTION Figuring September Definitions and Discourses of Terrorism Literary Approaches to Terrorism Fenians and Anarchists . JOSEPH CONRAD: ENTROPOLITICS AND THE SENSE OF TERROR The Secret Agent: Anarchism and the Thermodynamics of Law Sublime Subversions: Female Terrorism and Popular Victorian Fiction Under Western Eyes: The Sense of Terror . WYNDHAM LEWIS: LITERARY ‘STRIKES’ AND ALLEGORICAL ASSAULTS Refiguring the Avant-Garde: Vorticism’s Syndicalism ‘Enemy of the Stars’ Vorticism and Suffragette Violence ‘The Crowd Master’ ‘Cantleman’s Spring Mate’ . EZRA POUND: ANTI-SEMITISM, SEGREGATIONISM, AND THE ‘ARSENAL OF LIVE THOUGHT’ Radio Assassination Pound and Italian Fascism Heidegger and the Institution of Terror Heaven by Holocaust: The Pisan Cantos Pound and John Kasper: A Guide to KKKulchur ‘Maintain antisepsis, let the light pour’: The Rock-Drill and Thrones Cantos
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