A Battle of Puns and the Extra Pound

I will consider the different, but related, ways in which Joyce and Pound encode their own signatures and ideas among the fragments and figures of their literary inheritance(s). I will concern myself with the various Oedipal and/or disseminative stagings of literary authorship and interpretive authority in The Cantos and Ulysses, respectively. I am concerned that certain issues of their practices as writers and readers have been reductively polarized in microand macro-political terms into academic battles and battles on the wider political stage. For example, Joyce can be seen to

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