The Politics of Aesthetics: Ezra Pound’s Jefferson is Mussolini

Inscribed within the framework of Ezra Pound’s theory of the “luminous detail,” historical facts are placed under the sign of a highly idiosyncratic master narrative, which ties in with a politics of aethetics, after Jacques Rancière but also in keeping with Benjaminian evaluations of the political...

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Main Author: Hélène Aji
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Française d'Etudes Américaines 2015-02-01
Series:Transatlantica
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/transatlantica/7135
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