Acknowledgments
Preface: Back to Basics
Robert Scholes
Preface: In a Station
David Ben-Merre
Introduction
1. Pounding the Academy: The Poet as Student and Teacher
2. The Critic as Teacher: Pound's "New Method" in Scholarship
3. How to Read Comparatively
4. Periodical Studies
5. The Instructor as Propagandist
Afterword: Schools of Fish
David Ben-Merre
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Robert Scholes (1929–2016) was Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Brown University. A prolific author, his books include In Search of James Joyce and Textual Power: Literary Theory and the Teaching of English. David Ben-Merre is Associate Professor of English at Buffalo State College, State University of New York. He is the author of Figures of Time: Disjunctions in Modernist Poetry, also published by SUNY Press.
"…this short book harvests rich material evidence and
bibliographical pointers to the fact that Pound was both willing to
learn and always eager to share what he learnt by showing how
American institutions of learning in his time shortchanged young
minds, or neglected avid learners." — Modernism/modernity
"Scholes and Ben-Merre offer thoughtful close readings of key texts
in which Pound articulated his theories of teaching and learning."
— James Joyce Quarterly
"Super Schoolmaster provides an alert and informed review of an
important feature in Ezra Pound's poetic career—the wish to teach
the values of culture to a huge audience, in fact as many people as
possible, which takes us from his vision for a new form of pedagogy
to his political delusions of grandeur. In so doing, it also
provides a superb conclusion to the critical work of Robert
Scholes. In recent decades, Scholes had moved from his early study
of semiology and post-structuralism toward historical studies of
modernism focused on little magazines and archives. While his
scholarly approach and concerns shifted, his work was always
reflexive about different modes of learning and their historical
stakes for the future of the humanities. All these facets of
Scholes's career are visible throughout this posthumous book." —
Jean-Michel Rabaté, author of 1913: The Cradle of Modernism
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