I've read much of the work done by Perloff, Bernstein, Perelman et al on
Pound's Fascism/Anti-Semitism, and frankly even though you are
referencing polished pieces as opposed to an email discussion, I don't
think they would add much to that discussion or hold up under scrutiny.
Rather than your kerosene analogy, calling on the Buffalo clique to
ignite this topic intellectually would be more like forcing Mrs.
O'Leary's cow to piss on the Great Chicago Fire.- Carlo Parcelli
Wayne Pounds wrote:
>
> Been reading all the discussions about ep & fascism
> for the last six months and watched the flareup the
> past month or so. Now that the flame's dying down
> again I'd like to throw on a little kerosene.
>
> Though the topic matters to me greatly, I don't get
> anything from most of the discussions on this list.
> Seems to me
> they suffer from too much categorical thinking, much
> of it moralizing in the sanctimonious american
> way. First the scholar places Pound in the vice of
> the category, then s/he hammers him. What in the
> sainted devil's name is the point?
>
> What i would like to hear, and don't hear, is:
>
> 1. Interrogation of the categories, Fascist (big -f or
> little), anti-Semite, etc.
> 2. Contextualization. What is the ongoing discourse
> which give rise to P's words and to which they
> respond? Redman in <EP & Italian Fascism> showed us
> how this could be done.
> 3. And historicization that links the present to the
> past.
>
> A proposal: A few years ago --1996?--there were some
> fine pieces on P & Fascism/anti-Semitism by
> Chalres Bernstein, Marjorie Perloff, and others. I
> think the items are still out there on the Buffalo
> poetics list.
>
> Would it be ok for me to download a few of these
> articles and send them to our p-list in the hopes that
> they would improve our discussions? Some will have
> already read them. Many others, i think, will have
> not.
>
> Otherwise, we continue to go round the same muddy
> track, beating the same dead horse--pick your
> metaphor-- with no sense of what is the live issue and
> what is the dead. We don't approach the level of
> discussion of the Buffalo list in 1996. Isn't
> scholarship supposed to be cumulative?
>
> When i ask would it be ok, i mean would it be w/in
> web protocol to borrow from Peter to instruct Paul?
>
> Wayne
>
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