Very odd that neither of you recognize a difference between ideas taught as an historical relic and ideas offered up for debate as possibly true. Schmitt fits the latter category, Calhoun the former. Celine and Pound are taught in ways utterly nonanalogous
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Very relevant, yes, and I'd recommend Kenner's essay "The New Scholarship" (in William F. Buckley's edited collection Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?). Very illuminating on Kenner, the right & Pound. Which, I would insist, is the mainstream of Pound studies.
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But the mainstream academic view of Pound is not an endorsement of Social Credit--it's an endorsement of his phenomenal ear and cultural immersion. Nobody is going to pipe up in defense of his usury fixation, hatred of FDR (and, uh, Jews), or agrarian fantasies about America.
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It's more than a little inconvenient for Jeet's argument that Kenner, the one example Jeet had in mind, is not only not teaching but has been dead for 18 years.
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I did my diss on Pound in the early 2000s. Kenner was nowhere near the academic mainstream at that point. This was at Marxism central (Duke), but I'd risk to say that the only professor in either the English or Lit departments who'd even reference Kenner was Fredric Jameson.
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Maybe Frank Lentricchia, as well. Tho by the time I was there, he'd quit teaching grad students. Despite his po-mo cred, Jameson is an old school polymath type who'll drop Kenner or Northrop Frye into a lecture. But for profs of younger generations (Jameson was born in '34)....
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