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The Pound Reaction. Liberalism and Lyricism in Midcentury American Literature

The Pound Reaction. Liberalism and Lyricism in Midcentury American Literature Reviews DOI: 10.1515/abcsj-2016-0024 Andrew S. Gross, The Pound Reaction. Liberalism and Lyricism in Midcentury American Literature (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2015. 262 pp., ISBN 978-3-8253-6470-0) Andrew S. Grosss book, The Pound Reaction. Liberalism and Lyricism in Midcentury American Literature, is not actually a Pound monograph. Better said, it is one ­ but not only that. Indeed, taking Pound's case as its starting point, it aims at much more than just re-reading Pounds poetry ­ even though this would have already been a major and applaudable task. But Grosss ambition is much higher: his study sets as a goal the examination of the Bildung of a whole cultural context, the formation of the post-war Zeitgeist in American literary studies. More precisely, his book tries to answer not a single question ("What does Pound's poetry look like if re-read now?"), but a whole set of questions, which the author explicitly asks early on his study: The questions I ask are: How did postwar writers understand Pounds politics in relation to his poetics? Where did they place Pound in relation to existing cultural and legal institutions? Where was he located in the shifting political and cultural alliances of the Cold War? http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American, British and Canadian Studies Journal de Gruyter

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Reviews DOI: 10.1515/abcsj-2016-0024 Andrew S. Gross, The Pound Reaction. Liberalism and Lyricism in Midcentury American Literature (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg, 2015. 262 pp., ISBN 978-3-8253-6470-0) Andrew S. Grosss book, The Pound Reaction. Liberalism and Lyricism in Midcentury American Literature, is not actually a Pound monograph. Better said, it is one ­ but not only that. Indeed, taking Pound's case as its starting point, it aims at much more than just re-reading Pounds poetry ­ even though this would have already been a major and applaudable task. But Grosss ambition is much higher: his study sets as a goal the examination of the Bildung of a whole cultural context, the formation of the post-war Zeitgeist in American literary studies. More precisely, his book tries to answer not a single question ("What does Pound's poetry look like if re-read now?"), but a whole set of questions, which the author explicitly asks early on his study: The questions I ask are: How did postwar writers understand Pounds politics in relation to his poetics? Where did they place Pound in relation to existing cultural and legal institutions? Where was he located in the shifting political and cultural alliances of the Cold War?

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